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Savana Redding is the name of the thirteen-year-old middle-schooler whose case made it to the United States Supreme Court. Ibuprofen was the medicine that the school nurse failed to find hidden in her bra or in her panties. The court coverage by Wyatt Andrews offered strongest context to support the school's decision to intrude on the girl's privacy: "Prescription drug abuse is rampant," he stated. "More than 2m students admitted in 2006 they had used prescription painkillers or tranquilizers, most of it stolen from their parents…Most of the nation's school systems have asked the Court to keep the option of strip searches open."
NBC's Pete Williams gave strongest voice to the other side: "Her lawyers say schools need more than a vague tip to order an intrusive strip search…Even if the Court upholds strip searches, as it seems inclined to do, local school boards can still block them: three quarters of the school districts in Arizona, where this case comes from, already have."
On ABC, Jan Crawford Greenburg quoted Redding herself, now a 19-year-old college student: "They keep saying that: 'We are doing it to keep everyone safe.' What about me? You know? Like they did not help me any by doing that."
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