School officials deny strip search accusations in lawsuit

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. (AP) — Court documents in a federal civil rights case say an upstate New York school district and its employees categorically deny allegations that four 12-year-old girls were illegally strip searched by a school nurse.
Lawyers for the Binghamton City School District say the four students were sent to the school nurse in January for a “basic medical evaluation” after they were found in an unauthorized area at lunch time. The court documents filed this week say