Strip Search Case Going To Supreme Court

A case in which a 13 year old eighth grade girl was strip searched at school for prescription drugs is now going to the Supreme Court. Many of the details are disputed so I won't go through a lot of it but what is not disputed is that a 13 year old girl, suspected of having Ibuprofin, was forced to expose herself to the school nurse and secretary in a hostile environment. Minors have rights too but the government doesn't seem to recognize that. In the state of NJ you can't buy cigarettes until you are 19. That means you can drive, vote, enlist in the military, die for your country, buy a house, get a mortgage, then lose your house, get married, have kids, run for elected office, and be a model citizen but you are not or mature enough to inhale tobacco smoke.

This has been a repeating theme in NJ, we even have curfews in place for kids under the age of 18 in certain townships here in the Garden State. At the age of 16 I was employed as waiter at a local restaurant. If the town I worked in had curfew laws then I would have been fired. And now the government has taken the additional step and basically has said that if you are under 18 and over a month old they can strip you down and poke and prod at you until satisfied. No warrant, no real evidence, not even a police officer present (though I don't know how much that would have changed things), or a phone call to the parents. This kind of news makes me sick.

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