Girls strip seached

Four middle school girls left the cafeteria and were walking down the hallway, talking and laughing, when they say their principal at East Middle School in Binghamton, New York, stopped them. The girls — all of them 12 and either black or Latina — were taken to the health office, and without any explanation, subjected to "discriminatory, dehumanizing and unlawful strip searches," according to a lawsuit filed Monday by their families and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. The suit, which lays out claims of racial bias and a violation of the girls' civil rights during the Jan. The claims also led New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to announce a state Department of Education investigation.

CNN More than school-age girls -- including two as young as 12 -- have been strip searched by police in Australia 's most populous state over the past three years, according to official figures. Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds. Police officers and drug detection dogs walk among festival goers by an entrance to Splendour In The Grass on July 19, in Byron Bay, Australia. The statistics -- obtained under freedom of information laws by non-profit community legal organization Redfern Legal Center -- show that girls aged 12 to 17 were strip searched in New South Wales NSW between and

Around 10 per cent of the women and girls strip-searched by NSW police in the past three years were recorded as Indigenous, however its unclear how many of those were underage girls. Data obtained by Redfern Legal Centre shows that more than girls have been strip searched since That person is the youngest recorded to be strip-searched by NSW Police since

The police minister for the state of New South Wales, David Elliott, acknowledged that officers had not always abided by standard procedures in conducting strip searches of children, which are legal if the circumstances are urgent and a parent or guardian is present. But he said that if drugs were uncovered in the process, parents would nonetheless be happy. Civil liberties advocates strenuously disagreed. They called the searches an invasive overstep of paternalistic police powers that leave psychological trauma.