Savannah+Camp+1B

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__**Summary of Case Background Information:**__

In October of 2003, the Assistant Principal Kerry Wilson got a tip that Redding had ibuprofen. He got this information from another student who had been found with the pills and had claimed that Redding had given them to her. He requested to search her backpack and other belongings. When no pills were found in either he deemed that a strip search was necessary. He requested that the nurse and an administrative assistant (both female) do the strip search. They had her take off her pants, shirt, and shoes; and than they had Redding shake out her bra and pull her underwear away from her body. Pills were still not found, and Redding was so humilated that she never went back to that school.

**__Defendent's Side of the Story: __** Savana Redding was 13 at the time of the incident. The entire ordeal was tramuatizing and horrifying. Being a young girl is already difficult enough, one doesn't need more emotional baggage and scaring. As the Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said of her collegues "They have never been a 13-year-old girl's, it is a very sensitive age for a girl. I didn't think that my colleagues, some of them, quite understood." She was speaking about the fact that life as a teen is very difficult anyways and being a girl makes it so much harder. We are presurred to look perfect and act perfect, at no matter what cot to our health. It's not as though the drugs she was accused were extremely bad or even illegal, even if she did have the drugs they don't qualify for such an extreme search.

**__Prosecuter's Side of the Story: __** Since they had another student who said Redding had given her the pills, it was reasonable to search her. What reason whould the other girl have for lying about the pills? If we show leniency to one student then this sends the message that student should hide drugs in their undergarments. This statement from Justice Clarence Thomas shows he agrees, "Judges are not qualified to second-guess the best manner for maintaining quiet and order in the school environment. Redding would not have been the first person to conceal pills in her undergarments, Nor will she be the last after today's decision, which announces the safest place to secrete contraband in school."

In June of 2009 Redding won her case. The Supreme Court ruled that the Safford Unified School District violated Reddings constitutional rights when they strip searched her.

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