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http://dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=163121

Strip search of girl students was legal, superintendent says
The Columbus Dispatch
Monday, January 30, 2006 11:38 AM

Pike County educators followed school policy properly when they strip searched 20 teen-age girls Jan. 20 after two students reported a theft, an investigation by the superintendent concluded. Stephen E. Martin, superintendent of the Pike County Joint Vocational School District, said this morning that the district's legal counsel has assured him that the search policy was legal.
Martin said the decision to search the girls individually in a bathroom was warranted and there were reasonable grounds to believe missing money and a credit card and a gift card were hidden in a student's undergarment.
A teacher who is a registered nurse conducted the search. She asked each girl in the nursing class to drop her scrub pants to her thighs, and then, without removing their shirts, to unfasten and shake out their bras, Martin said.
"We have been assured that it is legal," Martin wrote in his report. "However, as a result of this situation . . . the district intends to provide inservice training for its entire staff who may be called upon to administer our search policy."
Separately, the Ohio Department of Education is investigating the incident.
Parents Betty Grandstaff and Carol Knisley said last week that they were furious after their daughters reported a teacher took them to the bathroom individually and made them drop their pants and unfasten their bras and shake them out.
The student manual says that any school administrator has "the right and duty to conduct a reasonable search of a person and/or personal property, including clothing, lockers, or vehicle when there is reasonable suspicion that the student may have . . . possession of items believed to be stolen."
Searches are also authorized, the manual says, if it is reasonably suspected that a student has a weapon, explosive or dangerous substance, or drugs, drug paraphernalia and alcohol. Searches are also allowed for "other reasonable and justifiable causes."
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I guess if I was a parent of one of the girls I wouldn't be happy either. Why only girls? Where there no boys in the class? Guess not just read it was a nursing class. Just because it is a said policy does not make it legal. Without knowing all the details I guess I will have to reserve judgement till more facts come out.
 
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Why not just contact the local P.D.? They would have a female officer trained in searches come and administer the search. If I were a parent, I would be outraged. Schools are overstepping thier rights.
 
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Unlike most others, I guess, I don't have a problem with this at all. Something was stolen, they had a reasonable basis to believe that it was in the possession of one of these girls, so they conducted the search. Guess what, chicks, life isn't fair. It's better to learn that lesson now. Wrong place, wrong time...but no real harm done.
 
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FKAGobucks877 said:
Unlike most others, I guess, I don't have a problem with this at all. Something was stolen, they had a reasonable basis to believe that it was in the possession of one of these girls, so they conducted the search. Guess what, chicks, life isn't fair. It's better to learn that lesson now. Wrong place, wrong time...but no real harm done.
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add me to the list of people who agree with you. the only part of their policy i have a problem with is their "right" to search your vehicle. i think they should have to involve law enforcement on that one. while i think they would have been better off involving law enforcement period, they didn't do anything wrong here.
 
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martinss01 said:
add me to the list of people who agree with you. the only part of their policy i have a problem with is their "right" to search your vehicle. i think they should have to involve law enforcement on that one. while i think they would have been better off involving law enforcement period, they didn't do anything wrong here.
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If the car is on school property, don't they have the right to search it?

Not sure on this one, kind of asking a question out loud.
 
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Thump said:
If the car is on school property, don't they have the right to search it?

Not sure on this one, kind of asking a question out loud.
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Yeah, I would say they do; provided they have reason to believe you're in possession of something you shouldn't be. Heck, they can bring drug sniffing dogs through the parking lots, so yeah.
 
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AJHawkfan said:
Heck, they can bring drug sniffing dogs through the parking lots, so yeah.
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Yeah, when a buddy of mine worked in Dayton and a teacher got fired b/c the dogs sniffed out his car.

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On a side note, I don't know why teachers aren't drug tested. I mean I know it's because of the NEA but still.
 
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Thump said:
If the car is on school property, don't they have the right to search it?

Not sure on this one, kind of asking a question out loud.
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hmmm... if the car is on school property thats a little different. where i went to high school there was no student parking on school grounds and while i wouldn't have argued to much over me getting searched. searching my vehicle which isn't on school property would have caused some serious issues.
 
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Thump said:
Yeah, when a buddy of mine worked in Dayton and a teacher got fired b/c the dogs sniffed out his car.

:slappy:

On a side note, I don't know why teachers aren't drug tested. I mean I know it's because of the NEA but still.
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i never understood it either.

i also liked it when some of the columbus suburban schools had drug testing for atheletes, i just wished they would have added on all extracirculars..
 
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