A Search for the Right Answer.

Dowling-Sendor, Benjamin

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Publication Date: 2002

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A Search for the Right Answer.

Dowling-Sendor, Benjamin

American School Board Journal, v189 n1 p40-41,50 Jan 2002

A federal case from Georgia about strip-searches of fifth-grade students for a missing $26 was appealed to the 11th Circuit Court. The 11th Circuit affirmed the district court that the strip searches were unconstitutional but that certain federal law rules shielded the school employees, a police officer, the school district, and the county from suit in federal court. The lawyers can still file suit in state court for students' claims. (MLF)

Descriptors: Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Courts, Legal Responsibility, Police School Relationship, Public Schools, School Law, School Personnel, Search and Seizure, Student Rights

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