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?

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