North Louisiana parents angry about strip search of students
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October 14, 2016
NEW ORLEANS (AP, Oct. 14, 2016) — The ACLU is looking into complaints from north Louisiana parents who say their teenage children were held after school and strip-searched when a student reported the loss of $42.
Melinda Ponder says her 15-year-old daughter was ordered to strip down to her bra and panties in the classroom at Caldwell High School in Columbia, 30 miles south of Monroe. Ponder said boys were taken to a bathroom where they were told to drop their pants.
Ponder said her husband filed an online complaint with the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana. The organization's direct...
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