{"id":29704,"date":"2017-10-14T00:00:26","date_gmt":"2017-10-14T05:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=29704"},"modified":"2017-10-15T08:17:23","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T13:17:23","slug":"reason-com-shackling-elementary-school-kids-above-elbow-found-to-violate-the-fourth-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=29704","title":{"rendered":"Reason.com: Shackling Elementary School Kids Above Elbow Found to Violate the Fourth Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reason.com: Shackling Elementary School Kids Above Elbow Found to Violate the Fourth Amendment by Brian Doherty:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A school resources officer for Covington Independent Public Schools in Kentucky in 2015 shackled, in separate incidents, two learning disabled kids, an 8-year-old boy and a 9-year-old girl. The cuffs were attached not around their wrists, but above the elbows behind their backs.<\/p>\n<p>The American Civil Liberties (ACLU) considered his actions a violation of the kids&#8217; Fourth Amendment rights, and this week a federal court agreed in a decision on motions for summary judgment from both sides.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d1ai9qtk9p41kl.cloudfront.net\/assets\/mc\/_external\/2017_10\/aclu-youtube.jpg?h=180&#038;w=240\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reason.com: Shackling Elementary School Kids Above Elbow Found to Violate the Fourth Amendment by Brian Doherty:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excessive-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29704"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29718,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29704\/revisions\/29718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}