Legal Opinion
J W v. Birmingham Bd. of Educ.
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided September 24, 2018No. 15-14669PublishedCited by 106 opinions
1Per curiam
Student Resource Officers employed by the Birmingham Police Department and stationed at schools have the authority to use Freeze +P, an incapacitating chemical spray, on students under certain circumstances. A number of Birmingham high school students who were sprayed with or exposed to Freeze +P in 2009, 2010, and 2011 filed a civil rights lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Birmingham Board of Education; A.C. Roper, the Chief of the BPD; and the SROs who used the spray against them or in their vicinity. Asserting individual and class-based claims, they alleged that the SROs used…
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