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Public School Administrators' Knowledge of Recent Supreme Court Decisions Affecting School Practice.
Download full textChapman, David W.; And Others – 1986
Public secondary school administrators should deduce from the 1985 "New Jersey v. T.L.O." Supreme Court decision that searching students does not violate the Constitutional prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures when there are reasonable grounds for suspicion. The "Wallace v. Jaffree" case, decided in the same…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrators, Court Litigation, Federal Courts
Wetterer, Charles M. – NOLPE School Law Journal, 1971
Discusses Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable searches and seizures in terms of searches made of students and their lockers. (JF)
Descriptors: Administrators, Court Doctrine, Court Litigation, Crime
Peer reviewedEhlenberger, Kate R. – Educational Leadership, 2002
Describes legal standard of reasonable suspicion for school officials to conduct student searches in public schools and court cases interpreting that standard. Discusses probable-cause standard for student searches by law-enforcement officials, voluntary student searches, and individual versus random searches. Recommends two practices to reduce…
Descriptors: Administrators, Board of Education Policy, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation
