The ACLU reports that "the Supreme Court ruled today that school officials violated the constitutional rights of Savana Redding, a 13-year-old Arizona girl who was strip searched based on a classmate's uncorroborated accusation that she previously possessed ibuprofen. This is the biggest victory for students’ rights in the last 20 years."The video provides more details:
What I don't understand is that people in the US love to wave their flags and declare themselves as "the land of the free" but they allow the above kind of police state tactics to go on. In this case, this poor family had to fight all the way to the US Supreme Court before they could get an admission that you don't strip search a 13 year old on the uncorroborated "testimony" of another student.
What I can't believe is that the taxpayers of Safford Arizona have been, and will be for many years, paying a lot of taxes to cover the crimes of school officials and to line the pockets of a lot of high-priced lawyers. All because the school officials in this town believe it is OK to strip search a 13 year old on "testimony" from another kid who is already in trouble and eager to find a way to get the authorities of her back and onto somebody else. I wouldn't feel so bad if this was the Scottsdale Arizona school board where you have a lot of millionaire parents who can dig a little deeper to throw money away on idiotic school bureaucrats, but Safford is a poor town without a tax base to cover this kind of waste to taxpayers' money. (Safford: median household income $29,899, Scottsdale: median household income $57,484.)
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