A Middle School Girl Who Was Stripped Searched Fights Back

Giulia Rozzi April 4, 2008 | 2:01 pm EST

This disgusts me. Savana Redding, a female student who was strip-searched for drugs when she was in eighth grade took her case to a federal appeals court on Wednesday. Her school has a strict policy against alcohol, narcotics and strip searched her because she was carrying ibuprofen! She feels that school officials had violated her constitutional rights and is fighting the action.

Savana Redding says she was “confused” and “ashamed” after the officials in Safford, Ariz., suspected her in 2003 of giving other students prescription Ibuprofen pills and ordered her to expose her breasts and pelvic area during a search in the school nurse’s office. She denied having any pills, and none were found. Her mother later filed on her behalf a federal lawsuit claiming the search was unreasonable and therefore illegal.

“A strip search, particularly of an adolescent, is a grave invasion of privacy and should be reserved for emergency situations,” Andrew Petersen, one of Redding’s lawyers, said in a written statement. “The misguided actions of these school officials must not become the status quo in our nation’s schools.” [ABC News]

Couldn’t the authorities have called her parents instead of shaming this girl by making her reveal herself to a bunch of disgusting school officials?

For more on this case and civil rights and check out www.aclu.org

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Can someone do me a favor?
This abuse of a 13 yr old minor isnâ€™t unique. MANY, MANY cases are similar.
This pattern is the same case after case, but weâ€™ll use this one for an example.

Authorities get a â€˜tipâ€™ on drugs.
Like Savanaâ€™s case.

So they search her locker, find NOTHING.
Gather her belongings, and search her backpack, etc, and find NOTHING.

>NOW< authorities, get an inspiration, or according to the judges a â€œreasonable expectationâ€, that if they strip search her and remove her bra and panties, that THEN they will find contraband.

Pardon my French, but how the frick do they figure that!??!?!?!

So those judges are saying that if I accused them of selling drugs. That the police would search their lockers, their offices and their cars and houses.
And find NOTHING.
That the police would STILL have a â€œreasonable expectationâ€ that if they strip searched them and pulled their shorts off that they would find drugs???

HUH?? Maybe its just me, but I don’t get it. The 4th amendment says “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, *******against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause,***** supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

Now for the favorâ€¦.please email the Attorney General of the United States and see if we can get an answer from him.

Dept of Justice United States : AskDOJ@usdoj.gov
Ed April 12, 2008 | 3:44 am EST
I hide stuff in my snatch all the time and the cops have never found anything *** even after a squat and cough or finger

I have a very tight vagina. It’s all in muscle control!
Chrisitne July 5, 2008 | 4:56 pm EST

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