Children Strip-Searched at Ohio Summer Camp

Ibrahim Y. Haroon is upset because his child was strip-searched on July 19, 2011 as part of a group of around sixty-five children attending summer camp at the Robert K. Fox Family Y in Lancaster, Ohio.

Some feces was found in the pool. The staff asked for kids to confess to defecating in the pool, but no child would confess. If the staff had any sort of wisdom, they would have just suspended pool privileges, but that solution did not seem to be oppressive and sexy enough for them.

The staff took all of the swimmers into the locker rooms, two-by-two, had them face the wall, and had them pull down their bathing suits or bathing suit bottoms. The staff members then inspected the bathing suits.

Just because one person may have pooped in the pool, why does that mean dozens of innocent children have to be humiliated? Also, since when did it become okay for an adult to demand a child disrobe? This strip-search of children is not only a gross violation of basic civil liberties, it is a sex crime. Adults cannot force children to undress. A teacher does not have the right to take children into a classroom and make them undress. The ranger at the park does not have the right to take children behind the bushes and make them undress. What the staff at the Robert K. Fox Family Y did is no different. Every staff member who participated in this strip-search needs to be fired, arrested for lewd and lascivious conduct, and never be allowed to work with children again.

Jacket Required: King County Requires Life Vests for Swimmers

If you plan to swim in a King County, Washington river, make sure to bring a life vest. The King County council made it illegal to swim in area rivers without a life vest. Council members Bob Ferguson, Larry Gossett, Joe McDermott, Julia Patterson, and Larry Phillips voted for the law. The only council members who had enough sense to vote against the law are Reagan Dunn, Jane Hague, Kathy Lambert, and Pete von Reichbauer.

So now, we have government telling us how to swim. How much longer before we are required to wear life vests at the beach? Maybe the next step will be to require swimmers to wear life vests while swimming in public pools. Since people can fall into swimming pools and natural bodies of water, maybe we need a law that dictates anyone within twenty feet of water has to wear a life vest.

Anyone who has ever tried to swim while wearing a life vest knows that is is a terribly uncomfortable challenge. This is an incredibly stupid law and just another ridiculous intrusion of government into the private lives of innocent people.