{"id":30173,"date":"2017-11-15T11:57:02","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T16:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=30173"},"modified":"2017-11-15T11:57:02","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T16:57:02","slug":"wapo-body-searches-of-900-georgia-students-by-sheriffs-office-leads-to-3-million-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=30173","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Body searches of 900 Georgia students by sheriff\u2019s office leads to $3 million settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2017\/11\/15\/sheriffs-body-searches-of-900-georgia-students-leads-to-3-million-proposed-settlement\/?utm_term=.8feb965a508d\">Body searches of 900 Georgia students by sheriff\u2019s office leads to $3 million settlement<\/a> by Susan Hogan:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In\u00a0April, law enforcement from Georgia\u2019s Worth County descended on a high school and, without a warrant, conducted body searches on an estimated\u00a0900 students, touching some students\u2019 genitals and breasts. They said they were searching for drugs. They found none.<\/p>\n<p>A class-action federal lawsuit soon followed, and the sheriff and two deputies were indicted in October in the raid\u00a0on Worth High School in Sylvester, which is about 170 miles south of Atlanta. On Tuesday, a legal advocacy group,\u00a0the Southern Center for Human Rights, said a proposed $3 million settlement had been reached in the lawsuit, pending a judge\u2019s approval.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Prior posts: <a href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=29573\">WaPo: Georgia sheriff, deputies indicted after body searches of 900 high school students<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=27424\">Law.com\/Daily Report: Students Subjected to Invasive Body Searches Sue South Georgia Sheriff<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Body searches of 900 Georgia students by sheriff\u2019s office leads to $3 million settlement by Susan Hogan:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,71,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-45","category-body-searches","category-school-searches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30173","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=30173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30174,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30173\/revisions\/30174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}