New at Reason: Jacob Sullum on Student Strip Searches

July 1, 2009

It turns out that strip-searching a 13-year-old girl suspected of bringing ibuprofen to school is unreasonable. Who'd have thought?

Well, says Senior Editor Jacob Sullum, almost everyone except Kerry Wilson, the assistant principal who ordered the search. But until last week, it was not clear the U.S. Supreme Court would agree. Sullum says the Court's 8-to-1 decision finding that Wilson violated the Fourth Amendment's prohibition of unreasonable searches is an encouraging signal that there are still limits on what government agents can do to our children, even in the name of protecting them from drugs.

Read all about it here.