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Should schools be permitted to strip search students?

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By Lylah M. Alphonse, on Fri Jun 26, 2009 9:32am PDT

Savannah Redding/AFP via Yahoo! News

Remember what it was like to be 13? Awkward. Gawky. Embarrassed by your changing body. Worried about social pressure, fitting in, and being bullied by "mean girls."

Now imagine being strip searched in front of adults who are practically strangers. At school.

The US Supreme Court ruled yesterday that a public school in Arizona violated the privacy rights of one of its students in 2003, when officials forced her to undergo a strip search after accusing her of bringing over-the-counter medication to school.

Savana Redding was 13 at the time, an honors student who had never been in trouble. According to Reuters, the assistant principal ordered a school nurse to search her after another student said Redding had provided her with over-the-counter ibuprofen pills. Read More »

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