Congress Considering Strip Searching Students

[Twist_U_Up]

When is enough, enough?

http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/091806stripsearch.cfm

Congress Considering Strip Searching Students
September 18, 2006


Imagine an America in which school officials could strip search every student in their school based on the unsubstantiated tip that one of them might have a joint. Congress is voting on a bill Tuesday or Wednesday that could make these police state tactics more common.

We can stop Congress in its tracks, though. Call your representative RIGHT NOW and tell them to vote against this dangerous bill.

If you don't know who your House representative is, simply call the Capitol Switchboard at [phone] and give them your address. They'll connect you directly with your representative's office.

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The Student Teacher Safety Act of 2006 (HR 5295) is a sloppily written bill that would require any school receiving federal funding (essentially every public school) to adopt policies allowing teachers and school officials to conduct random, warrantless searches of every student, at any time, for essentially any reason they want. All they would have to do is say they suspect one of their students might be carrying drugs, and then they could conduct a wide scale search of every student in the building. These searches could be pat-downs, bag searches, or strip searches depending on how far school administrators wanted to go. Although courts would have the power to overturn policies that went "too far", it could take years - possibly decades - to safeguard the rights of students in every school.

[datasuspect]

1. didn't you know?

dignity is for the rich, our leaders, and captains of industry.

[Sgent]

2. How is this different than currently?

It seems to me that with a sworn affadavit, a judge would issue a warrant anyway.

[Monkeyman]

3. Dam make it stop

[NOLADEM]

4. Isn't there some new law allowing someone ...

to put someone on a sexual registry without due process? Why not use this here? Let's fight fascism with fascism. If anyone tries to do this, register them, from the judge to those performing the searches. Register them as child predators.

Seems fair.

[mongo]

6. A judge has to approve it

http://web.morons.org/article.jsp?sectionid=1&id=7168

[mongo]

5. From the article

"Searching students without individualized suspicion that they have done something wrong fosters mistrust between adolescents and the adults they should feel comfortable turning to when they do have substance abuse problems. Treating groups of students as if they're guilty until proven innocent sends them the wrong message about what it means to be American citizens, and makes them less likely to seek help and guidance when they need it."
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I think the message they are trying to send is that this is EXACTLY what it means to be an American, in a Neo-con America.

[acmejack]

7. Weapons and drugs.

The bill was debated this afternoon.

[williesgirl]

8. This lunacy must stop. Anyone trying that w/my kid better duck. n/t

[w4rma]

9. The Republican pervert cops get to "search" naked co-eds law. (nt)

[dave502d]

10. This should tell you how sick our country is.n/t

[Jed Dilligan]

11. Who introduced this POS

any Democrats supporting it?

[fed-up]

12. the local high school already has dogs and cameras-now strip searches?

I am sooo glad my son started college this year.

I gave him permission last year to not participate in any dog searches, the ones where the kids have to leave their backpack in the classroom when they randomly bring the dog around. As luck would have it the one day they did his classroom we were out of town on vacation.

He doesn't use drugs or drink, it was the violation of privacy and the right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure he objected to.

The powers that be are slowly getting our youth accustomed to living in a POLICE STATE and that is NOT what my country should stand for.