Should Officials Use Social Media

Should officials be able to use information they find on personal devices or social media to protect communities? Officials have the right to search a guilty person's device and use information from it to protect the community. Although, officials searching personal devices would be an invasion of privacy, and people won’t feel like they are able to do what they want.

Officials should be able to search personal devices and use the information to ensure people’s safety. For example, whatever is posted online is only the suspects fault and they should have to deal with the consequences. “Young people need to learn that when you post something on the internet, there are consequences. Kids should not be misbehaving on social networking sites in
If kids don’t want to get in trouble or don’t want adults finding things they post, it shouldn't be posted online. It’s their fault that it was posted and they need to learn what is and isn’t fine to put online. In addition, if schools are able to check students’ posts online, it could save students and stop worse things from happening. “Schools should have the right to punish students for online activity because doing so might save lives. If a student is bothering another student, the school could address the problem before the dispute gets physical.” (Joseph Maneen). So many kids are bullied online, causing them to take their lives. If an adult sees it in time, they can stop it and help them. Most bullying occurs online and could be stopped before it gets out of control. Furthermore, once a criminal is accused of a crime, searching their phone could help police find more information or stop future crimes. “We were able to establish who (the arrested people) were in contact with. It helped us to find who may also be involved in that crime,” Detective Chris Grider told Bakerfield’s 23ABC.” Once