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DH ex rel. Dawson v. Clayton County School District

904 F. Supp. 2d 1301 (2012)

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DH ex rel. Dawson v. Clayton County School District

United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
904 F. Supp. 2d 1301 (2012)

Facts

Clayton County School District (school district) (defendant) had a policy of conducting strip searches. The school district subjected a group of students to strip searches upon suspicion of the theft of $26. The students sued the school district and secured a ruling that the strip searches were unconstitutional. The school district made no substantive changes to its policies after the adverse decision and made no effort to retrain the officials who conducted searches. Later, officials at a high school in the school district suspected several students of possessing marijuana. The officials subjected the students to strip searches in each other’s presence. One student, DH (plaintiff), sued the district pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging violations of his Fourth Amendment rights. Specifically, DH alleged that the violations were attributable to the school district’s failure to train its officials following its original adverse court judgment. The school district filed a motion to dismiss. In its filings before the court, the school district did not contest the allegations that it had inadequately trained its employees or that strip searches violated the students’ constitutional rights.

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Issue

Holding and Reasoning (Totenberg, J.)

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