https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2017/06/06/lawsuit-mass-search-of-georgia-high-school-students-included-genital-touching-exposure-of-female-students-breasts/?utm_term=.aa8b4996f812Back in April, I wrote about a mass drug search of 900 Georgia high school students. The search was done without a warrant and based on tips from students who had been questioned about a string of robberies. Those students told police there may be illicit drugs at the school. It included pat-downs and drug dog inspections of bags, lockers and cars. It all turned up nothing. It was the second such search in a month. Both were likely mass violations of the students’ Fourth Amendment rights.
But now, a lawsuit filed on behalf of several students and seeking class-action status for all of them makes some far more disturbing allegations:
a) Deputies ordered students to stand facing the wall with their hands and legs spread wide apart;
b) Deputies touched and manipulated students’ breasts and genitals;
c) Deputies inserted fingers inside girls’ bras, and pulled up girls’ bras, touching and partially exposing their bare breasts;
d) Deputies touched girls’ underwear by placing hands inside the waistbands of their pants or reaching up their dresses;
e) Deputies touched girls’ vaginal areas through their underwear;
f) Deputies cupped or groped boys’ genitals and touched their buttocks through their pants.
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