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Should Schools Have The Right To Search A Phone?
School officials search phones to get information for a reason, but did they have the right to search your phone? School should have the right to search my phone, IF it’s reasonable. Principals or officials need permission or a warrant to search a phone. To search a phone it has to have a reasonable cause. And if officials ask to search your phone you have the right to say NO! A lot of schools and other places do not follow orders like these, and it ends up bad for them. But they can take your phone without permission if you were not following the rules. So do you know your rights of your cellphone privacy? According to Franczek Radelet and Jacqueline Gharapour Wernz any search of student technology must be justified at its inception, which means there must be a reasonable suspicion that the search will …show more content…
A search is reasonable if they the student is violating rules or is in danger. If your phone is confiscated they can only search it if they have a reasonable reason, warrant, or your permission. If someone is going to search through my stuff I want to see that he/she has the right to search through my personal information. If you violated school privacy government cell phone usage during school hours, then your school can probably confiscate your phone. I would be very mad if someone took my things and just starting searching through it without my permission or a warrant. Also if my stuff is in “investigation” even though i wasn’t a part of whatever is going on and they search through it and find something, then I’m gonna be mad. Well, someone can still search through your stuff with a reasonable reason? But that person if they find something they are more likely to fault without a warrant. Don’t let anybody go through your stuff without permission, and stand up for your rights of

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