How does the law treat searches of student property in school?

 

There law only permits the searches of students property in schools only when there is reasonable suspicion and believe that there is a school rule or rules that have been violated and by doing the search the evidence of the violation will be located on the students searched.

Step-by-step explanation

-The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits unreasonable searches on people's property as well as the students in public schools. Under the amendment searches on students property can only be conducted when there is a reasonable suspicion. Reasonable suspicion is justified when there is reasonable grounds that by conducting the search, it will reveal the evidence of the suspected violation of law and also when the search is not too much intrusive in connection of the student's age, sex and nature of the offense.

-Some examples of reasonable suspicion to conduct searches are:

• If the school administration receives an anonymous phone call that a student will be bringing drugs to school, creates a reasonable suspicion to search the students pockets and bags.
• When two students reports to the administration that another student posses a gun provides a reasonable ground for the suspicion to search the student and his locker.