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Newsbrief:
ACLU
Sues
Detroit
Over
School
Drug
Raids
6/18/04
The Michigan American Civil
Liberties Union (ACLU) filed suit against the city of Detroit and the Detroit
Public Schools last week, charging that police and security guards on drugs
and weapons sweeps unjustly frisked students, lined them up against walls,
and searched their bags. The lawsuit claims that the district and
the city subjected the students to unannounced, unreasonable and unwarranted
searches.
In its filing, the ACLU pointed
to searches conducted this year at Mumford High School, where no weapons
or drugs were found. Searches were also conducted at Pershing and
Murray-Wright high schools, the lawsuit said.
Michigan ACLU director Kary
Moss told the Detroit Free Press the suit was filed "reluctantly and only
after [we] tried without success to persuade the school district to abandon
its policy of conducting sweeps -- mass, indiscriminate searches that are
unconstitutional in Detroit public schools."
The school district remained
firm in support of its mass search policy. "That would be totally
ridiculous for the court to ban us from having the opportunity to conduct
weapons sweeps in our buildings," said the district's general counsel,
Anthony Adams. "We have an obligation to make sure our kids are safe."
Besides, he added, the district tells the kids to expect random searches.
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