Matthew Heller writes:
After winning a public records lawsuit, On Point has learned that an Arizona school district paid a $250,000 settlement to a former student who was illegally strip-searched by school officials looking for prescription drugs.
An Arizona judge recently ordered the Safford Unified School District to produce the settlement agreement, finding that the privacy interest of the former student, Savana Redding, “is minimal when weighed against the greater public interest for transparency in the expenditure of public funds by the district.”
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