A case involving Safford Middle School in Arizona, taken by the courts for review in January of this year has been settled. Today the Supreme Court, in an 8-1 vote, ruled that an investigation performed by the Safford Middle School based on nearly no evidence, resulting in a strip-search of a 13 year-old, 8th grade honor roll student, violated the Fourth Amendment ban on “unreasonable searches and seizures.” A federal appeals court also found the search “traumatizing” and illegal. Read more
