I’m a parent of a thirteen-year-old girl who is a seventh
grader in an urban middle school. Everyone knows that there are a lot of drugs
in that school, and I've been just worried to death about it. I recently joined
a group of parents and teachers who have begun to meet to discuss the problem
to see if there’s anything we can do to address this problem. Well, last week
after lunch the janitor found a bag of stuff in the girls’ rest room that
turned out to be an illegal substance, and a teacher heard a student say that
several seventh-grade girls at the school had drugs on them that day. The principal
called in the police, and they had dogs sniff all the lockers. Then they
rounded up all the seventh-grade girls, and two female police officers
strip-searched them one at a time in the nurse’s room. My daughter is very shy
and introverted, and this has been so traumatic for her. Now she refuses to go
to school. I’m as concerned about the drug problem as anyone, but I don’t think
this should ever have happened to my daughter. Did the principal and the police
have the right to organize this search? If I sue for damages, am I likely to
win?
4 comments:
Aaron Chancy-Yes, I believe that the police and the school had the right to do the search. In Loco Parentis states that the school has the right to act as the parent while the child is at school. And being that drugs where on the property of the school and the girls where at the school I believe that the school was in the right. I do not believe that the mother would win if she sued. But of course in this day and age who knows for sure. However, it was female police that conducted the search and they did it wont girl at a time. The bottom line was that it was for the protection of the students, not to hurt anyone.
Andrew Cooper- Yes the police were right to do the search. They ended up finding what they were looking for which was the best result possible.To sue or go against this process of Search and Seizure would be foolish because it was necessary.
Rajon McCall: THe teachers were absolutely given the strictest and most valuable right to do what they did. Each procedure was legal and by the book. No teacher got their hands dirty and each of the female students were searched by someone of the same sex as them. All of this was done out of reasonable suspicion and also legal evidence. Even though your daughter might not have needed to been searched if you feel that she would never carry drugs, the procedure was just to make sure that not any other females were carrying any just to make sure. By federal law as long as evidence is shown, a police officer can search as much as reasonably needed without warrant. It's as simple as that.
Christopher Driver- Yes, she has the right to sue and she will most likely win....they don't have the right to search the students without the parent(s)'s permission
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