13 Year Old Girl Strip Searched at School Dance
by TChris
Volunteers at a monthly middle school dance, hosted by the Center for the Arts in Grass Valley, California, asked a 13-year-old girl to take off her clothes to prove that she wasn't in possession of marijuana. The executive director of the Center claims the strip search was an appropriate implementation of its "zero tolerance" policy.
The Center apparently has "zero tolerance" of the privacy rights of minors. Kudos to the local police, who realize that the Center erred.
"Officers advised staff that what they did was unlawful," Grass Valley Police Sgt. Michael Hooker said Tuesday. "It's not criminal, but it's a civil wrong. It's an invasion of her privacy."
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