3 girls sue school district over strip search (one girl reported $100 missing from purse)

[The Straight Story]

3 girls sue school district over strip search


ATLANTIC, Iowa -
Three teenage girls are suing the Atlantic School District because of a strip search they were made to undergo during a high school gym class in August of last year.

The lawsuit has been filed in Cass County by Holleigh Jo Jacobsen and her father, Matthew Jacobsen, Griffin Ferguson and her mother, Lisa Ferguson, and Paige Brianna Lank and her mother, Lee Lank.

The three girls were among five ordered to submit to a search in a locker room after another girl reported the theft of $100 from her purse. The money was not recovered.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-ia-stripsearchlawsui,0,5153513.story

[LakeSamish706]

1. All three of them should have reported money missing and that certainly would have ended any

more of these search's.

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. I was teaching 2nd grade many years ago

And one of my kids came in one morning and showed me a $20 bill that another one of my students had just given her. A few minutes later I got an emergency phone call from a parent. She had left an envelope with $300 in cash on the kitchen table and couldn't find it. She wondered if her son had brought it to school.

By that time he had given it all away.

He was actually a pretty nice kid. Generous too. :)

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. What was she doing with $100 at school?

Can't condone the strip search but have to wonder why she would bring that much money to school.

[Renew Deal]

4. Of course you can condone strip search. It's in the name of safety!

And if it means that the other kids are safe from these thugs, then it make sense. Right?

[The Straight Story]

5. She was paying off the teacher for her grades

:)

[ProgressiveProfessor]

6. The teachers and administration should have seen this one coming

Why they think they are immune from lawsuits over questionable behavior is beyond me.