Stop Strip Searching. Stop it. 
Thursday, February 16, 2012 at 1:45PM
Justin Bathon in Discipline,Search-Seizure, Justin Bathon, Student-Rights, atlanta, discipline, fourth amendment, search, strip

School administrators - stop strip searching. Stop. Don't do it again. 

Sch. Law Profs - stop telling your students they can strip search. I don't care what narrow legal exception exists, there is so little to be gained outside of an immediate threat (i.e. a gun). 

It is stupid and unnecessary and nearly always ends poorly (and with lawsuits). 

Here is the latest

 

P.S. - Isn't it a bit ironic that the person fired in this case for doing the search was named Redding? Poetic, a bit, isn't it. 

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