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The U.S. Supreme Court agreed today to review the civil rights case of an Arizona girl who was strip-searched in 2003 by middle school officials who were looking for prescription drugs, which they never found. The eventual decision on the case could have wide-ranging implications as to how much evidence is needed before school officials can preform intrusive searches on their students.
The case focuses on a 13-year-old named Savana Redding from the small city of Safford, Ariz., who was called into her assistant principal’s office one day in 2003 to answer questions about a folder that was discovered with knives, a lighter and a cigarette. When the girl told the assistant principal the folder was hers but that she had lent it to a friend and didn’t know the about the items inside, the official then pointed to several prescription-strength ibuprofen pills that were also found with the folder. Redding denied any knowledge about the pills, but soon was being led into the school nurse’s office. She was told to strip so the female officials in the room could look for more pills. The girl young girl ended up being asked to expose her breasts and genitals to the female officials in the room, but no pills were ever found, court records show.
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