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Expelling kids for shooting plastic pellets out of a pen case, strip-searching them in a hunt for Ibuprofen or writing a 6-year-old up for sexual harassment after a playground booty smack is not education.
A temperance movement springs up to combat Fairfax County schools' zero-tolerance policy 2011
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It decided that school policies and the need for order can trump a student's right to free speech, and it determined that school officials went too far in strip-searching a 13-year-old girl in a search for drugs.
Supreme Court confronts conflict between constitutional rights and protecting children 2011
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Interviewees said police treated them in a humiliating and degrading way when they were stopped – particularly in strip-searching and handcuffing them.
Reading the Riots: 'Humiliating' stop and search a key factor in anger towards police 2011
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Expelling kids for shooting plastic pellets out of a pen case, strip-searching them in a hunt for Ibuprofen or writing a 6-year-old up for sexual harassment after a playground booty smack is not education.
A temperance movement springs up to combat Fairfax County schools' zero-tolerance policy 2011
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If you are more paranoid/risk-averse than this, you need a top-to-bottom risk policy that would include locking down every printer so confidential data isn't simply printed and carried off premises; or strip-searching employees.
Should Employees Be Allowed to Use Their Own Devices for Work? 2011
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And they did it day after day, capping off the enterprise, once Tenochtitlan had been razed, by strip-searching their victims for any treasure they may have concealed before killing them ...
New World Apocalypse, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Are we strip-searching everyone with a Muslim-sounding name?
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If the daughter [granddaughter?] of a Supreme Court Justice walked into school with five pounds of pot and a Glock taped to her body, the first faculty member who so much as whispered the idea of strip-searching her would be fired, simply as a precaution, even before her family's lawyers had a chance to descend on the place.
The difference between in loco parentis and loco school principals 2009
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Are we strip-searching everyone with a Muslim-sounding name?
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But many jails flouted those holdings by routinely strip-searching every inmate.
Strip-Search Lawyers Air Dirty Linen Jess Bravin 2011
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