KALAMAZOO (WKZO) -- KPS officials are denying it was a strip search but Kalamazoo School officials admit that procedures were not properly followed after a camera disappeared at Milwood Magnet on March 1st. Ricardo Escamilla, who has two children in the district says Police should have been called but were not.
He claims first there was a pat down search and when that didn’t produce anything, he says they went further than they are allowed. The girls were removed from the class and the boys were told to drop their pants and hold up their shirts.
Apparently administrators had no idea what had taken place prior to the allegations surfacing at last Thursday night’s board meeting. School officials deny that was a strip search, but exclusively told 590 KZO that proper procedures were not followed.
They will only say that “appropriate action has been taken” without offering details, and additional training for staff is being scheduled. Parents were apparently never notified of the incident.
