Is A Strip Search of a Middle School Student to Look for Motrin Unreasonable?
As I explained when I previewed this case in an earlier column, the dispute arose at the Safford Middle School in southeast Arizona. School officials there, concerned about illegal drug use by students, got wind that someone had impermissibly brought to school some 400-milligram tablets of ibuprofen and similar pain relievers. Ibuprofen is a pain and muscle ache drug that is available over the counter, but the 400-milligram tablets — twice the size of the tablets available for purchase at a grocery store — require a doctor’s prescription. Some of these 400-milligram pills were discovered in the possession of a student named Marissa, who then told school authorities that another student, Savana Redding, had given her the pills, along with a black planner. (When the planner was seized from Marissa and searched, officials found other contraband but no drugs.) School officials then questioned Savana, who admitted to having loaned Marissa the planner, but denied having any knowledge about
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