Philadelphia, Pa., Mar 21, 2017 / 20:45 pm
A Pennsylvania high school wrongly allowed a female student into the boys' locker room and violated an undressing male student's privacy and his right to be free from harassment, a lawsuit charges.
"No school should rob any student of his legally protected personal privacy," said Randall Wenger, chief counsel of the Pennsylvania-based Independence Law Center, a co-counsel to the lawsuit.
"We trust that our children won't be forced into emotionally vulnerable situations like this when they are in the care of our schools because it's a school's duty to protect and respect the bodily privacy and dignity of all students. In this case, school officials are clearly ignoring that duty."
The student, named in the lawsuit as "Joel Doe," was in a locker room in his underwear about to put on gym clothes when he noticed a female student in the locker room, also in a state of undress.