I don't know what guidelines most schools use to justify personal searches on kids, and I've rarely heard of those (like body searches and pat-downs) happening here in my area of Texas. But for some reason, I was thinking that courts have upheld overall school searches even without probable cause, but perhaps I'm wrong. . . . I'll have to ask my friend who's a principal.

I know at my friend's school, the on-campus officers periodically bring the drug dogs around to sniff lockers and stuff, but all the kids know that the dogs come periodically and know better than to keep any illegal stuff there on school grounds. I know most school administrators and teachers in this area worry a whole lot more about weapons than they do about drugs.
birdgirl73 Reviewed by birdgirl73 on . School to randomly test student drivers for drugs we must teach the kids they have the freedom to have no rights and live in a dictatorship...and to be safe from the drugs the feds ship in, then put people in jail to work 20 cents an hour for using... and no, the school cops don't already have the right to search student vehicles...unless, of course, we don't live in a free country... School to randomly test student drivers for drugs Associated Press | July 20, 2006 COMMENT: While this particular story might take place in Rating: 5