UPDATE: Supreme Court rules strip search unconstitutional, saying that only when student safety is at risk may school officials strip search students. The search of her backpack and outer clothes was permissible, not searching her underwear! The ruling was 8 to 1. School officials are not personally liable, unfortunately, and the lower courts will determine […]
Category: Strip Searches
The government wants to take away your rights and your clothes.
Your Right to Forbid a Strip Search
Strip-searched students receive $5,000 each
A Greene County, Virginia High School settled a law-suit over a mass strip-search by paying $5,000 to each of the 28 students named in the suit. The original strip-search occurred in May 1997 when a student reported $100 missing from his wallet. To try to recover the money, the school forced about 50 students from […]
Students win $450K settlement due to strip search
With the help of their parents, five boys, aged 10 to 11, successfully sued the city of New York for unlawfully strip searching them while in attendance at a government (aka public) school in New York. The boys filed a federal civil rights lawsuit in September 2004 and won a $450,000 settlement from the city […]
Bomb-note writer wins in court, now takes on school
Supreme Court allows search of car passenger belongings
Students Stripped to Find Stolen CDs
(3/3/98) Think the government wants to protect your rights? Think again. In January, as many as 30 teenagers were forced to strip down to their undergarments by government school teachers, who were searching for stolen CDs, money and makeup. The teenagers were given two choices – they could strip themselves or the teachers would strip […]