Savana Redding

Dear ACLU Supporter, When Savana Redding was just 13 years old, she was strip-searched by school officials for allegedly possessing prescription-strength ibuprofen. This traumatizing search was based solely on the false and uncorroborated accusation of a classmate who was caught with similar pills. Overzealous school officials violated Savana's rights and called into question basic constitutional protections for all students in schools across America. This morning, the Supreme Court heard arguments from ACLU attorney Adam Wolf in this powerful case. Savana and her mother, April, recorded a short video with Graham Boyd, an attorney here at the ACLU who is working with them. I think ... Read Full Story

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A public school violated the privacy rights of a teenage girl who had to disrobe on suspicion she had ibuprofen pills, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday in its first decision on student strip searches. By an 8-1 vote, the justices upheld a ruling that the school and its officials violated the U.S. constitutional right that protects against unreasonable search and seizure. The ruling by the nation's high court was a major defeat for school officials who had defended the strip search as necessary for student safety, school order and combating a growing drug problem. School officials in Safford, Arizona, ... Read Full Story

I am perplexed over the Supreme Court’s decision in the case of Redding v. Safford United School District . The court ruled that the 4th Amendment rights of one Savana Redding were violated by the school’s performing a strip search of Savana for prescription drugs. I am perplexed on two levels: First, the ruling in favor of Savana Redding, and second, the strip search by the school. A modicum of the case’s history for the uninformed: On October 2003, Assistant Principal Wilson, after receiving an uncorroborated tip from a student that Savana was in possession of prescription strength ibuprofen, queried Savana about the allegation. ... Read Full Story