North Carolina's highest court is hearing a case involving a teenager who was searched for drugs at an alternative school. Flag #1 - alternative school -- this girl must not be an angel to begin with.
The school had received a tip that students were smuggling drugs into the facility. The principal of the school knew that the preferred place to hide drugs was in the underwear. So she ordered that students be searched by a minimally invasive procedure -- the students were not touched by anyone, and no body parts were exposed. The students were brought one by one to a classroom with three adults present. The girls were asked to pull their shirts away from their bodies, place their hands under their shirts, and pull out the bottoms of their bras with their thumbs so that anything hidden there would fall out.
The girl who filed the suit says that the search was unreasonable and she was humiliated and frightened by it. I guess she was. She had Percocet and drug paraphernalia on her. Maybe the search wasn't so unreasonable after all.
"State high court hears 'bra-lift' case." The Dallas Morning News; February 14, 2012; p. 7A.
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