Following up on the Safford Middle School strip search case, an 8-1 decision:
Supreme Court Rules School’s Strip Search of Girl Was Illegal
The Supreme Court ruled today that Arizona school officials violated the constitutional rights of a 13-year-old girl when they subjected her to a strip search on the suspicion she might be hiding ibuprofen in her underwear.
The court ruled 8-1 that such an intrusive search without the threat of a clear danger to other students violated the Constitution’s protections against unreasonable search or seizure.
Lyle Denniston, writing at SCOTUS blog points out that :
The new rule is that searching students’ inner clothing, with exposure of their bodies, will be extremely difficult — though not impossible — to justify.
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The other constitutional rule — searches of public school students’ backpacks, notebooks, other belongings, outer clothing, and pockets are generally allowed if they are based on “reasonable suspicion” — remains as it has for a quarter-century, but with a small amount of refinement, the exact scope of which is not quite clear.
And,
Thursday’s decision only applies to future searches, so the Constitution does not provide them a remedy.
And, hopefully, this will prevent cavity searches, too.
UGH! I’m glad they ruled it illegal. Wow, for ibuprofen?
Yes, isn’t that insane to begin with?
I’ll say Fausta (I’m also Salixj, long not worth it story to go with that)