The Morning Call reports that the Palisades School Board has adopted a policy that would allow strip searches of students when other students and staff are believed to be in danger.
Continue reading...The Fayette Observer reports that Clarinda and Lionel Shawn Cox, the parents of Justin Cox, have filed suit in federal court against the Sampson County Board of Education, alleging their then-fifth grade son was strip-searched in June 2012 by now-former Union Elementary School Assistant Principal Teresa Holmes for $20 reported missing in the school’s cafeteria.
Continue reading...The Chicago Tribune reports that the mother of a male student at Round Lake Middle School has filed suit against Round Lake Area School District 116, the middle school’s former principal, and the school’s current assistant principal alleging the 13-year old student was illegally strip searched in April 2012.
Continue reading...According to Fox 4 News reported on fox4kc.com, the Turner School District has filed a motion in federal court to dismiss a suit brought by the mother of a female student who claims she was wrongfully strip-searched.
Continue reading...According an Associated Press report on ABC News, a student at a Georgia middle school has filed suit alleging he was brought to a vice principal’s office and forced to strip in front of classmates who said he had marijuana.
Continue reading...The father of a female middle school student has filed suit in federal district court against the Philadelphia School District (PSD) alleging she was inappropriately touched by a PSD police officer during a pat-down for weapons, says the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Continue reading...Atlantic School District has settled a suit brought by the families of three of five female students at Atlantic High School strip-searched by a high school guidance counselor looking for money believed to have been stolen, says the Omaha World-Herald.
Continue reading...The grandparents of a male African-American middle school student have filed suit in a federal district court in Michigan, says the Saginaw News, alleging that the school’s female principal subjected the student to a strip search and seeking $50,000 in damages.
Continue reading...A federal district court in New Mexico has issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) limiting searches by school district officials at an upcoming high school prom and graduation. The court rejected that part of the plaintiff’s’ motion seeking to prohibit any searches, but barred the school district from conducting searches and confiscations as it had in the past. The court’s refusal to order a total prohibition on searches at the upcoming school events was based on its finding that while it was likely the plaintiff would succeed on her claim that the suspicionless pat down searches violate the Fourth Amendment, it was not likely she would succeed on the merits of her claim that searches of possessions violate the Fourth Amendment.
Continue reading...Two female students at Capital High School (CHS) have filed a class action suit in federal court against Santa Fe Public Schools over being searched at their school’s prom, says the Santa Fe New Mexican. The suit alleges that SFPS violated the students’ constitutional rights by performing “overly intrusive searches” of their bodies and belongings at the school’s prom last month.
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