Lawsuit by student strip-searched at Wayne Highlands

Posted 8/21/12

HONESDALE, PA — A former student has filed a lawsuit against Wayne Highlands School District because the student claims he was strip-searched in an unlawful search and seizure. Ryan Highhouse was …

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Lawsuit by student strip-searched at Wayne Highlands

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HONESDALE, PA — A former student has filed a lawsuit against Wayne Highlands School District because the student claims he was strip-searched in an unlawful search and seizure. Ryan Highhouse was taken to the principal’s office in February 2014 after another student reported $250 in missing cash.

Vice Principal John Kretschmer and teacher Timothy Wood confronted Highhouse and told him to take his clothes off. Highhouse’s mother was in the school at the time, and he asked that she be permitted to attend the proceeding, but that was not allowed.

Highhouse was searched, including inside the waistband of his underwear. It is not clear if any money was discovered, but the lawsuit alleges that he was taunted by teachers and students so relentlessly that he eventually left the school.

Highhouse is now seeking damages because the superintendent and principal failed to train their subordinates not to violate student’s rights.

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