Okaying the Use of Metal Detectors Proves Easier than Actually Using Them.

Stelly, Philip

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ERIC Number: EJ294969

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1984

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Okaying the Use of Metal Detectors Proves Easier than Actually Using Them.

Stelly, Philip

American School Board Journal, v171 n3 p47 Mar 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, Legal Responsibility, Privacy, School Security, Search and Seizure, Student Rights, Violence

Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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