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      "date": "2009-06-29",
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      "title": "Fourth Amendment Protections Against Student Strip Searches: Safford Unified School District #1 v. Redding",
      "summary": "The Fourth Amendment protects individuals from unreasonable searches and seizures. What a court determines to be \u201creasonable\u201d depends on the nature of the search and its underlying governmental purpose.\nThis report provides an analysis of the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s 2009 decision, Safford Unified School District #1 v. Redding, which addressed the constitutionality of a strip search of a 13-year-old middle school student. Based on the facts of the case, the Court held that the school\u2019s search of a student\u2019s book bag and outer clothing was in accordance with the Fourth Amendment. However, as a result of a number of factual deficiencies, the search became constitutionally unreasonable when it went beyond the student\u2019s outerwear and ultimately led to the student being required to shake and pull out her bra and underwear.\nFor a discussion of drug testing in public schools, see CRS Report RL34624, Governmental Drug Testing Programs: Legal and Constitutional Developments, by David H. Carpenter.",
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