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Stelly, Philip – American School Board Journal, 1984
Discusses legal problems of a policy permitting the use of metal detectors to search students suspected of carrying concealed weapons. A wholesale search policy was challenged as a violation of students' rights, so the board adopted a selective search policy based on reasonable suspicion. (TE)
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Crime Prevention, Elementary Secondary Education, Legal Problems
