The father of a biracial Florida teen filed a federal lawsuit against the Brevard County school board, claiming his 14-year-old daughter was improperly strip-searched by staff, bullied and racially harassed by students, while school officials ignored the increasingly exasperated family’s complaints.

The lawsuit filed by Nicholas Dayton on Nov. 14 in a Florida U.S. District Court in Orlando and obtained by Atlanta Black Star claims Carrie Humphrys, the assistant principal at Eau Gallie High School in Melbourne, strip-searched his daughter three times in violation of district policy, apparently seeking contraband that she never found on the ninth grader, who was humiliated and traumatized by the violation of her body and her civil rights.

Identified in the complaint as M.D., the girl is an

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