DETROIT (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union is suing a school district, saying a locker-room strip search of students for money reported missing from a student's wallet was unconstitutional.
The ACLU, which filed suit Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Ann Arbor, is representing six Whitmore Lake High School students, ages 15 to 18, said Michael J. Steinberg, the group's state legal director.
The lawsuit contends that the students' Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable search and seizure were violated, as well as their rights to due process of law.
The search took place after a May 24 coed gym class, when a female student said $354 she had been collecting to rent a limousine for the school prom was missing from her wallet.