Yesterday, Liberty Counsel argued at the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in a case involving a state worker who made two elementary students at a private school undress without parental consent. 

The trial court ruled that there was an obvious violation of the students’ Fourth Amendment right to be free from an unreasonable search. The social worker appealed that ruling. The appeals court panel, consisting of Judges Bowman, Bauer and Sykes, is expected to rule on this case in the spring.

While the social workers should be empowered to protect against actual abuse, they should not be given carte blanche to barge into a private school on a whim and strip-search innocent children. We have enough trouble in this country trying to keep families together without the government pitting parents against children in their blundering investigations.

You can listen to the oral argument online via the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals web site.

Read our News Release for more details on this case.