Part 1
As the principal of a public high school, are there reasonable grounds to conduct a search in the following circumstances?
You question a student on why she is hanging around a section of the locker room, and the student gives evasive answers. According to the Jayhawkville Board Policies, the principal has the right to search the lockers, while witnessed by a another adult, upon reasonable suspicion. Lockers are considered school property and student there is no expectation of privacy. A student answering evasively is not grounds for a search. As per the Jayhawkville Board Policy, a student must be believed to be “in possession of an object which can jeopardize the health, welfare or safety of the student or others.”
New Jersey v. T.L.O. provides guidelines pertaining to student searches at school, and states there must be reasonable grounds to carry out a search on a specific individual that will yield admissible evidence that is in violation of school rules. However, under the Fourth Amendment, the Supreme Court maintains its verbiage declaring school administrators must have reasonable cause in order to perform a search on a student.
A student tells you that he thinks another student brought a gun to school. Based on reasonable suspicion, a school administrator has the right to search the suspected …show more content…
She reveals that one of her ninth-grade students confided that her period is two weeks late and she has been feeling nauseous every morning. The student thinks she might be pregnant, but she is afraid to tell her parents. You know that her parents are extremely conservative. Her father plays golf with the district superintendent. The student’s mother is an outspoken opponent of sex education in schools and serves as president of Virgins for Life—a pro-life organization that also promotes sexual abstinence before marriage. The student made her teacher promise “not to tell
As the principal of a public high school, are there reasonable grounds to conduct a search in the following circumstances?
You question a student on why she is hanging around a section of the locker room, and the student gives evasive answers. According to the Jayhawkville Board Policies, the principal has the right to search the lockers, while witnessed by a another adult, upon reasonable suspicion. Lockers are considered school property and student there is no expectation of privacy. A student answering evasively is not grounds for a search. As per the Jayhawkville Board Policy, a student must be believed to be “in possession of an object which can jeopardize the health, welfare or safety of the student or others.”
New Jersey v. T.L.O. provides guidelines pertaining to student searches at school, and states there must be reasonable grounds to carry out a search on a specific individual that will yield admissible evidence that is in violation of school rules. However, under the Fourth Amendment, the Supreme Court maintains its verbiage declaring school administrators must have reasonable cause in order to perform a search on a student.
A student tells you that he thinks another student brought a gun to school. Based on reasonable suspicion, a school administrator has the right to search the suspected …show more content…
She reveals that one of her ninth-grade students confided that her period is two weeks late and she has been feeling nauseous every morning. The student thinks she might be pregnant, but she is afraid to tell her parents. You know that her parents are extremely conservative. Her father plays golf with the district superintendent. The student’s mother is an outspoken opponent of sex education in schools and serves as president of Virgins for Life—a pro-life organization that also promotes sexual abstinence before marriage. The student made her teacher promise “not to tell