Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/supreme-court-hears-school-strip-search-case Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript The Supreme Court heard arguments in a case about whether Arizona school officials were justified in strip-searching a 13 year-old girl for prescription drugs on another student's tip. The National Law Journal's Marcia Coyle explains the case and its implications for power limits on school officials. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. RAY SUAREZ: The justices were asked today to decide whether officials at an Arizona school went too far when they strip searched an eighth-grader accused of distributing prescription-strength ibuprofen. After the arguments, attorneys for the school and for Savana Redding, the student at the center of the case, spoke to reporters.ADAM WOLF, attorney for the Redding Family: The school should have and could have taken seriously an accusation that Savana perhaps provided ibuprofen at some unknown time and in an unknown location. But with that and without anything more, to force Savana to take off her shirt and her pants and to rummage on or around her body just went beyond the pale.MATTHEW WRIGHT, attorney for the school district: You have to remember that school administrators are tasked with the responsibility to care for the kids in their care, custody and control. And they stand much like a parent stands in their stead while they're at school.And so, because they have that awesome responsibility, they need the flexibility to act immediately and effectively when they reasonably believe that a child's health and risk are at issue.