This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Friday, September 15th,

2023. I'm Caleb Brown. When police violate your rights,

it's often difficult to hold them accountable because of a judicial doctrine known as qualified immunity,

but what about when a public university official violates your free speech rights?

Even in those cases, even when the violation of rights is not in dispute,

qualified immunity regularly protects those officials from consequences as well.

Casey Maddox is a vice president and Americans for Prosperity.

We spoke last month in Chicago. is a vice president of Americans for Prosperity.

We spoke last month in Chicago.

Almost the entirety of the focus on qualified immunity

has been on police.

That's appropriate to a point because police are the people we give guns to and ask them to have

often profoundly negative

interactions with the broader public.

And so one of the issues that has been raised pretty recently,

I spoke with Chris Kemmett from N double ACP, an attorney there who was representing

a young woman who had been strip searched multiple times by her high school's administrators looking for pot.

And that obviously if there's one thing everybody can pretty much agree on is that that is something

that should not occur and that young people to the extent that they are entitled to agency and the

protection of law that is something that should not be allowed to occur and

and so it it's raised the issue at least in my mind that maybe if you want to go at this qualified immunity thing,

there are a whole host of other public officials who should not be entitled to it who nonetheless are.

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