Strip Searches in High Schools?
Civil liberties advocates are concerned about the deceptively titled "Student and Teacher Safety Act of 2006" just passed by the House of Representatives and now headed to the Senate. If enacted, the bill would require any school receiving federal funding to adopt policies allowing teachers and school officials to conduct random, warrantless searches of every student, at any time, on the flimsiest of pretexts. “The searches could take the form of pat-downs, bag searches, or strip searches depending on how administrators interpret the law,” reports the Drug Policy Alliance.
The PTA, the American Association of School Administrators, the National School Boards Association and the ACLU all oppose the bill.