Students Strip Searched for Vaping Devices

Prosecutor says no criminal charges will be filed, because the girls could leave their undergarments on.

Six teenage girls say they were forced to strip so school administrators could check them for vaping devices. Families of the teenagers—students at Suring High School in Wisconsin—have now retained a civil rights lawyer, after the local district attorney declined to bring criminal charges against Suring High officials.

In Wisconsin, it's illegal for any official, employee, or agent of a school district to conduct a strip search of a student. School policy also specifies that this should not be done.

But District Attorney Edward D. Burke, Jr. said Tuesday he would not press charges against Superintendent Kelly Casper and the school nurse (both women) who made the girls disrobe, because Wisconsin law defines a strip search as requiring the exposure of genitals, pubic areas, breasts, or butts.

Burke said the girls were asked to strip down to their underwear and bras but not to take off their undergarments. Two students who weren't wearing underwear were allowed to leave on leggings while officials patted down their legs. "One of the students was asked to pull her bra band away from her body, but her breasts were not exposed to Ms. Casper or the nurse," Burke said in a statement.

One of the girls contradicts this account, however, telling police that she was made to reveal her breasts so they could check under her bra too.

Whether the search rises to the level of criminal antics, it still seems pretty ridiculous. Being forced to strip down to one's underwear in front of others can be embarrassing and uncomfortable—especially for teenage girls, who aren't exactly known for their comfort with their bodies—even without further exposure.

And regardless of how students feel about it, school officials shouldn't have the right to make kids take off their clothes, period.

The whole thing is especially galling when you consider that the officials weren't looking for a gun, a knife, or anything that may have posed an immediate safety threat. They made students strip out of concern that they might be vaping.

According to TCH Daily News, which first reported on the incident, the students were brought in for the searches after being caught vaping on school grounds. One parent told the paper that her daughter "was taken into a room and gave them her vape and the superintendent told her that she was going to strip search her anyway."

School Board President Wayne Sleeter told FOX 11 that the board "needs time to gather and review documents" and will discuss the searches at a March 2 meeting.

Some of the girls' parents told the Green Bay Press Gazette that they hired attorney Jeff Olson to represent them. "Olson said he plans to draft a settlement proposal and move on through litigation if a settlement isn't reached," the paper reported earlier today. "To my way of thinking, it's hard to justify an intrusive search for an e-cigarette that you have already found," Olson told Fox 11.

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[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

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[Tony]

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[buybuydandavis]

Government schools are child abuse. By design. And it will only get worse.

Totalitarians attack you and the future by attacking your children. It's about fear, humiliation, and demoralization.

The US ruling class didn't go direct to "grooming" gangs because unlike in the UK, we didn't give up our guns.

[Longtobefree]

Reads like the classic definition of a sexual assault.
Never mind the settlement, go to trial and flood social media with the process. Make sure these perverts never work with children again.

[mad.casual]

Make sure these perverts never work with children again.

Or at the very least develop a very healthy, "Fuck it! Let 'em vape." attitude.

[VULGAR MADMAN]

They’ll just use a different excuse. These people are evil.

[Longtobefree]

Full disclosure: Upon reflection, I am not sure if this was sarcasm or not

[mad.casual]

I'm not really in favor of sex offender registries because they lead to abuse where the local sheriff puts signs in people's lawns. But I wouldn't be the least bit bothered if a "I made High School Girls under my authority strip for me." turned up on these people's lawns.

[JohnZ]

That sounds like a good idea. Start with those two.

[mad.casual]

Burke said the girls were asked to strip down to their underwear and bras but not to take off their undergarments. Two students who weren't wearing underwear were allowed to leave on leggings while officials patted down their legs. "One of the students was asked to pull her bra band away from her body, but her breasts were not exposed to Ms. Casper or the nurse," Burke said in a statement.

*takes long, slow inhale from vape pen followed by long, slow exhale*

[Fist of Etiquette]

What's the point of acquiring authority if you can't use it to strip search people in your charge, I guess.

[Fat Mike's Drug Habit]

Dogs. Once you have power you can shoot them or seize them from people you don't like with impunity.

It doesn't appeal to me personally but it does seem like a lot of these assholes have a thing for other people's dogs.

[Rev. Arthur L. Kuckland]

The fat ugly girls were told they could leave

[Á àß äẞç ãþÇđ âÞ¢Đæ ǎB€Ðëf ảhf]

Not necessarily. These are ignorant power-hungry state burrocrats who couldn't hold down a real job longer than it took for the door to hit them in the butt as the security guard escorted them out. They may well want the fat ugly ones.

[JohnZ]

Those that can, do. Those that can't, teach.

[buybuydandavis]

The sexual thrill is in the power to control and humiliate, not in the sex.

Orwell knows the Modern Left. Same as the Old Left:

The second thing for you to realize is that power is power over human beings. Over the body but, above all, over the mind.
...
How does one man assert his power over another, Winston?'
Winston thought. 'By making him suffer,' he said.
'Exactly. By making him suffer. Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own? Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation. '

[Dillinger]

>>school officials shouldn't have the right to make kids take off their clothes, period.

. hope they get millions.

[perlhaqr]

Directly from the Teacher's Union retirement fund. Or personal accounts.

[JohnZ]

How about a punch in the face for starters.

[Don't look at me!]

Ken is right, they are the most horrible people.

[Á àß äẞç ãþÇđ âÞ¢Đæ ǎB€Ðëf ảhf]

My wish for bad warrants is that for every warrant you write, approve, execute, or have anything to do with, if it is found to be abusively written or executed, or if it does not find the predicted results, it rebounds on you: your victim has a full year to repeat the same warrant execution on you, at a time and place of the victim's choosing, with any agent they designate.

Here, those girls could designate their father to execute a similar strip search on the superintendent and nurse, for several reasons: (1) illegal to even execute, (2) illegally executed, (3) didn't find what they were looking for. Because there are three distinct reasons for rebound, it rebounds three times for each, one consecutive year for each.

I bet that would put a screeching stop to almost all warrant abuse. The executors would learn real quick that being a jackass has repercussions.

[perlhaqr]

So, to make sure I understand, at any time over the next three years, each of these six girl's fathers may show up at any time and place of their choosing, on three separate occasions, and strip-search the superintendent and nurse?

Man, trips the the grocery store and church are going to take on a whole new level of excitement for those two for a while...

[Á àß äẞç ãþÇđ âÞ¢Đæ ǎB€Ðëf ảhf]

Exactly what I mean. If the warrant executors were polite and the rebound only applied because they lost their case, I'd imagine most victims would waive rebound or take cash in lieu of revenge. Or possibly just let the whole thing lapse ... while making them sweat right to the end.

Naturally the rebound strip search has to be roughly similar. Probably have to be the mom who monitors it, or the daughters, or a hired leering prostitute. Couldn't be any more public than the original, etc.

[perlhaqr]

Ok, cool. That sounds pretty reasonable. I just wanted to make sure I'd understood the compounding. 😀

Yeah, being dragged off randomly and stripsearched by a relative stranger, that would probably tend to strongly discourage further such actions.

[buybuydandavis]

The challenge for the 21st Century is holding to account people who betray the institutional power they are given.

[Social Justice is neither]

The real question is were any of them sex workers and do any of them have a legit Onlyfans worth subscribing to?

[mad.casual]

Yeah, from ENB's perspective the whole thing was legit and should've been celebrated if the girls consented.

I mean, bras, no underwear, vape materials, and HS, we almost certainly aren't talking 13-14 yr. old girls here.

[Rockstevo]

What if they just said no? The problem here is we have become such a compliant society, at least in some areas. If only one of the girls had said no, you can call my parents but I am not stripping for you without their say so. What are they going to do, hold her down and strip her, then they really would have a case. The worst case scenario is they might have been suspended but that would be a stretch if they just said they want them to confer with their parents first. Would have given them pause and they more than likely would have changed their minds.

[CindyF]

LOL. No. That's not how it works anymore. If they hadn't complied, they would have been arrested and then strip-searched, and then expelled from school. No matter what, they WERE going to be strip-searched. You MUST comply!

[Don't look at me!]

But wait!
What color was everyone’s skin?

[perlhaqr]

Puce.

[Rubbish!]

School administrators and school board should have no problem stripping down to bra and panties in front of the jury since that's not a problem or a stripsearch, amirite?

[Tionico]

so these schoolyard bullies think they OWN these students? NO ONE shuold be able to demand another remove any clothing they would not volunterily remove in a public setting, such as the classroom with the whole class present. If soem of the boys had been caught peeping through a window into the girls' restrooms, or the gymn, they would rightly be tossed uot for a season.

They do all this nazi stuff over VAPING? Good grief. Nannies gone berko.

[Nominalis]

Maybe they were looking for a post-molestation hit of nicotine.

[Tony]

Long ago, an acquaintance of mine told me that he was only interested in women who were sexually inexperienced. Then he became an 8th grade teacher.

We've had such moral panics before, but part of me is like, sheesh, maybe robots should teach school?

[Vernon Depner]

Since there's no evidence you ever attended school, I don't believe you're qualified to comment on this.

[CE]

Usually the school administrators just want to search their phones for illicit pictures. Or to see if they can recruit them into their LGBTQ club.

[Union of Concerned Socks]

This thread is useless without pix.

[Liberty Lover]

Students Strip Searched for Vaping Devices
But only the females.
Educational Perverts,

[Vernon Depner]

no criminal charges will be filed, because the girls could leave their undergarments on.

Imagine a non-government child molester attempting this defense.

[DarrenM]

"To my way of thinking, it's hard to justify an intrusive search for an e-cigarette that you have already found," Olson told Fox 11.

To anyone who cares about civil liberties, it's also hard to justify an intrusive search for an e-cigarette that you HAVEN'T already found.

[In Canis Credimus]

Fire them both. No searches of our kids without parents or warrants. We don't need to raise a generation of kids who are sycophants to authorities.

[In Canis Credimus]

parents present that is.

[Junkmailfolder]

"especially for teenage girls, who aren't exactly known for their comfort with their bodies... "

What a strange point to make. Would it be okay if they were comfortable with their bodies? Did you ask these girls if they were comfortable with their bodies?

Sounds like something a radical individualist might assume.

[JohnZ]

Time for a little shaming. Someone needs to put up some signs in front of the homes of both those degenerates.
"Warning: Child rapist lives here!"
I hope the parents of those unfortunate girls sue the hell out of the school system.
This is just another reason out of the many hundreds not to send your children to a public school.

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[Cowboy Cop]

Put me on the Jury for civil damages!

[Think It Through]

When does the movie come out?

[Naime Bond]

Parents should have the right to do this to teachers and administrators looking for CRT or 1619 literature.

[William]

Given the fact that these so called bureaucrats and administrators are local it provides perfect opportunity for the Fathers of these Girls to locate the perpetrators at either the local grocery store or mall. All it takes is some courage to wait for them in the parking lot and give them a REAL AFTER SCHOOL SPECIAL. That’s the only way to strike fear into their hearts and minds.

[Liberty Lover]

It's not over, parental concern has it reopened. Heads should roll.

Oconto County Sheriff's Office reopens investigation into strip searches at Suring High School after a request from the district attorney Updated Feb 22,2022

SURING – The Oconto County District Attorney’s Office on Friday asked the Oconto County Sheriff’s Office to reopen its investigation of administrators who were accused of strip searching students to their underwear for vaping devices in January.

The sheriff’s office on Monday denied a reporter’s open records request for documents related to the investigation because it “could compromise the effectiveness of the prosecution of the case.”