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The school crotch investigation

WHAT THE FUCK
i hope this poor girl makes millions off this bullshit
wtf is a "zero tolerance policy" so if some little shit has a headache he cant pop an advil? are they fucking retarded?

^^^^^ i totally agree, the principle, nurse and whoever the fuck else was involved should have every possible charge slapped on them for stip searching a 13 year old girl in hopes of finding a fucking advil


best part is they didnt find shit, and the girl was an honor student WHAT THE FUCK this is just pissing me off the more i read into it
 
This is disgusting. They wouldn't have gotten away with this in the UK.
 
paranoid android said:
OMG ibuprofen. Whats next aspirin? I hope her parents sue the living fuck out of them so bad that the school district won't even be able to afford a pencil.
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While I agree that this situation is absolutely disgusting, the above comment is the definition of ignorance.
 
the US sounds fantastic! I hope one day i can live there so i can truly be free!
 
"It's a good thing the school took swift action, before anyone got unauthorized relief from menstrual cramps."

WTF, that is sadistic.

Over here school can't give out any drugs anymore for health and safety reasons. I.e. they don't want to get sued.

However bringing in some ibuprofen or paracetamol is not a problem.
 
Strip Search of School Girl for Ibuprofen Went Too Far

Search and Seizure: Strip Search of School Girl for Ibuprofen Went Too Far, Federal Appeals Court Says


from Drug War Chronicle, Issue #543, 7/18/08

(http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/543/ninth_circuit_school_cannot_strip_search_student_ibuprofen)

An Arizona school violated the constitutional rights of a 13-year-old school girl when it subjected her to a strip search to see if she was carrying the pain reliever ibuprofen, a narrowly divided federal appeals court ruled last Friday. Lower courts had held that the school did not violate Fourth Amendment strictures against unreasonable searches and seizures because officials have a legitimate interest in protecting students from prescription drugs.

Ibuprofen is available in lower doses as a non-prescription drug and is found in common medications such as Advil and Motrin to treat ailments like cramps and headaches. Higher doses of the drug require a prescription.

The ruling came in Redding v. Stafford Unified School District, in which honor student Savana Redding sued the district over the 2003 search. On the day in question, Safford Middle School Principal Kerry Wilson found two prescription strength ibuprofen tablets in the possession of one of Redding's classmates, who fingered her as the source. After escorting Redding to his office, Wilson informed her of the accusation, which she denied. Redding then agreed to a search of her possessions, which turned up nothing. Wilson then ordered a female administrative assistant to conduct a strip search in the school nurse's office. In the school nurse's office, Redding was ordered to strip to her underwear. She was then commanded to pull her bra out and to the side, exposing her breasts, and to pull her underwear out at the crotch, exposing her pelvic area. The strip search failed to uncover any ibuprofen pills.

"The strip search was the most humiliating experience I have ever had," said Redding in a sworn affidavit following the incident. "I held my head down so that they could not see that I was about to cry."

For the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals, the search was not only humiliating, but unconstitutional. "Directing a 13-year-old girl to remove her clothes, partially revealing her breasts and pelvic area, for allegedly possessing ibuprofen, an infraction that poses an imminent danger to no one, and which could be handled by keeping her in the principal's office until a parent arrived or simply sending her home, was excessively intrusive," Justice Kim McLane Wardlaw wrote for the 6-5 majority. "A reasonable school official, seeking to protect the students in his charge, does not subject a thirteen-year-old girl to a traumatic search to 'protect' her from the danger of Advil. We reject Safford's effort to lump together these run-of-the-mill anti-inflammatory pills with the evocative term 'prescription drugs,' in a knowing effort to shield an imprudent strip search of a young girl behind a larger war against drugs," Wardlaw wrote.

"It does not take a constitutional scholar to conclude that a nude search of a 13-year-old girl is an invasion of constitutional rights. More than that: it is a violation of any known principle of human dignity. The self-serving statement of a cornered teenager facing significant punishment does not meet the heavy burden necessary to justify a search accurately described by the 7th Circuit as 'demeaning, dehumanizing, undignified, humiliating, terrifying, unpleasant [and] embarrassing,'" Wardlaw continued. "And all this to find prescription-strength ibuprofen pills. No legal decision cited to us, or that we could find, permitted a strip search to discover substances regularly available over-the-counter at any convenience store throughout the United States."

Not all the justices agreed. In his dissent, Justice Michael Daly Hawkins wrote: "We should resist using our independent judgment to determine what infractions are so harmful as to justify significantly intrusive searches. Seemingly innocuous items can, in the hands of creative adolescents, present serious threats. Admittedly, ibuprofen is one of the mildest drugs children could choose to abuse. But that does not mean it is never harmful."

The ACLU Drug Law Reform Project, whose Adam Wolf, helped argue the case, was pleased. "Students and parents nationwide can breathe a sigh of relief knowing that adolescents cannot be strip searched based on the unsubstantiated accusation of a classmate trying to get out of trouble," said Wolf, co-counsel in the case with the law firms Humphrey & Petersen and McNamara, Goldsmith, Jackson & Macdonald, in a statement greeting the ruling. "This ruling is a victory for our fundamental right to privacy, sending a clear signal that such traumatizing searches have no place in America's schools."

Redding pronounced herself pleased, too. "I took my case to court because I wanted to make sure that school officials wouldn't be able to violate anyone else's rights like this again," she said in the same statement. "This was one of the most traumatic experiences of my life, and I am relieved that a court has finally recognized that the Constitution protects students from being strip searched in schools on the basis of unreliable rumors."
 
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dhcdavid said:
An Arizona school violated the constitutional rights of a 13-year-old school girl when it subjected her to a strip search to see if she was carrying the pain reliever ibuprofen,
a narrowly divided federal appeals court ruled last Friday.
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okaaaaaaayyy



o_O
 
I've heard a lot of weird things about gov;t behaviour in the US and UK these last few years but there's no way I can wrap my head around this one. I'm just really confused. are grown-ups just evil?
 
Johny Boy said:
However bringing in some ibuprofen or paracetamol is not a problem.
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we were never allowed to bring OTC medications to my school. if they caught you, they would call your parents. if you were caught repeatedly, you served detention. needless to say, i spent a lot of time in detention.

this was also like 10 years ago, too. i'm really not surprised. however to strip search a student is just asking for it.
 
That is the most disgusting fucking thing ive ever heard of , i hope the teachers , the nurse , the principal and the vice principal each get their ass given a fucking pink slip and maybe even do a jail term lets see if they like a little Invasive search "prison style" ...and maybe theyll change their tune a little bit ..
 
we were allowed to bring medicine in as long as we had a note from our parents explaining why we needed it. some teachers would keep it behind their desk when you showed it to them and you could get it when you needed it; admittedly not all kids know enough to realize that popping 6 tylenol can kill your liver, so as far as that concern goes it definitely was for their own good.

COMMON SENSE MOTHERFUCKERS, DO YOU HAVE ANY.

*headdesk*

seriously though, this is upsetting.
 
ControlDenied said:
...I'm just really confused. are grown-ups just evil?
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No, it just seems that certain children have gotten away with dressing up in robes and acting like Supreme Court justices... :\
 
I don't see the logic of not letting kids have tylenol and ibuprofen. are they afraid they'll get so miserable in the american school system that they'll commit suicide in class?
 
^^^^ There is no logic. It's a case of out-of-control school administrators forcing their control trips on citizens whose age makes them vulnerable to these control trips.

It's really up to parents to step in and say "Enough of this horseshit. Keep it up and we'll school our children at home and the public system will lose its public funding."
 
I KNOW I KNOW I KNOW

LET'S PRIVATIZE IT,
JUST LIKE YOUR GREAT HEALTHCARE SYSTEM!
 
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