Supreme Court Limits Strip-Searches of Students
Public school officials violated the Fourth Amendment rights of a 13-year-old girl who was strip-searched for suspected drug possession, but are entitled to qualified immunity from legal action, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled today.
The ruling on strip-searches of students clarifies the standard for when such searches are permissible, but it does not prohibit them.
"Here, the content of the suspicion failed to match the degree of intrusion," wrote Justice David H. Souter in
an opinion joined by five other justices
.
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