LOUISVILLE (CN) – On the same day that the U.S. Supreme Court limited the use of strip searches in the public schools, two young women filed an action in Jefferson County Court against a local middle school and several of its employees for using “grossly intrusive” methods to discover an alleged cache of marijuana. They were allegedly forced to unzip their pants, “lift up their bras … and jump up and down.”
Ashley N. Gaither and S.C., a minor, were 14 and 13, respectively, in 2005 when they say they were “arbitrarily singled out” while riding a Jefferson County Public Schools bus to Kammer Middle School in Louisville, and then subjected to a day-long interrogation and humiliating searches without being allowed to call their parents.
According to the complaint, the incident began when the bus arrived at the school and two employees boarded it in order to resolve a dispute in which the girls were not involved. The employees “smelled what they thought was marijuana,” the complaint states, and five girls seated at the back of the bus, including Gaither and S.C., were detained and searched.
During an interrogation that lasted the entire school day, and after being denied repeated requests to call their parents, the girls were required to “remove their shoes and socks, unbuckle their belts, unbutton their pants, and unzip their pants,” the complaint says. They also had their “waistlines physically touched and searched” by a male employee while their pants were undone, and were made to “lift up their bras while their shirts remained on and jump up and down.”
The searches were all performed behind closed doors and without the presence of police offices or female staff, the suit says. No marijuana was found.
This is your country on marijuana prohibition. Any questions?
I asked my cousin Kenny, a father of two almost middle school girls, for his take on these stories. He said he hopes I have a savings account with enough money to bail him out for the assault and battery charges he’d rack up for his special “interrogation” of school officials. I told him, “Don’t worry, I know A LOT of lawyers who’d take your case pro bono and about a quarter-million Stashers who’d kick a fin into the Tip Jar just to bail you out.”
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OYE! Someone needs to let the kids know just because they’re minors it does not mean they give up their rights! Shit if it would have been done to one of my girls they would have flipped them off and told them to call the police if they couldn’t call me, then they would have requested to file charges on the officials right there.
i wonder if i could sue my old school this happened to me twice in my 8th grade year just because i was talking to sum1 before the gym lights came on at the end on the gym. It was embrassing the made me and my bud take are short off and shake are boxers
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… around here those fellas would be taken to a ‘blanket party’ where you get to sneak up behind them and throw a blanket over their heads and then you begin the party.
The prohibitionist are purverts…they like to watch their little titties bounce up and down…..sue them!!
great slogan for this Russ (this is your country on Marijuana Prohibition!!!!! ) because it lookss like this is what its come too illegal searches of teen age girls by men (thats a charge i wouldnt mind serving time for over my daughter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I agree with your cousin, if this woulda happened to my daughter these people would be taken out back for the special test and I would get equal value of the time id be in jail. All these lies about caring about kids so much looks like a total contradiction. The kids are becoming victims in this war, the same as adults, I was under the impression we defeated nazi germany in WW2, I better reread the facts.
i find it interesting that many cannabis prohibitionists seem to find laws pertaining to children and sexual desire unimportant.
I hope they’re successful in their lawsuit. I hope these school officials pay deeply from their own pocket and I hope they face criminal charges like sexual assault of a minor and possibly other criminal charges.
it’s disgusting that people think that such actions are ok or even necessary but it’s even more disgusting that these people are supposed to be taking care and protecting our kids.
Great another story comming from my state. I was under the impression when this happened the school fired the employees that did this search. I remember when this was local news I just cant think what ever happened, but its great to hear they are going to stick it to those bastards!
Totaly un-called for and not to call the parents as soon as they got pulled off the bus, that alone is where I draw the line. What ever happened to just calling the parents first?