MONTREAL — Quebec’s education minister, Yves Bolduc, has appointed Fabienne Bouchard to lead an independent investigation into the Quebec City student strip search.
The controversial incident took place at Neufchatel High School when a 15-year-old student was strip-searched in February after school officials suspected she may have been selling drugs.
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Bouchard is a former Crown prosecutor. According to Le Journal de Quebec, she will be compensated approximately $8,000 to investigate and make recommendations related to strip searches in secondary schools in the province.
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The De la Capitale School Board has clarified certain elements of the “intervention,” defending school administrators’ right to conduct a strip search, saying they followed guidelines created by the province’s education ministry and published in collaboration with Quebec provincial police and Canada’s National Crime Prevention Strategy (NCPS).
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