Why Dogs Should Be Allowed To Search School Property

The United States of America is based on freedom and we should try and preserve as much freedom as possible: that being said, when children enter the confines of a school zone they give up some constitutional rights that are implemented in order to preserve the best learning environment possible. For example, canine officers are allowed into schools to sniff out drugs that may be harmful to the school environment. There is debate about whether this violates our 4th amendment right against unreasonable searches, but theses drug-sniffing dogs are trained and when they identify something wrong, it is considered reasonable cause to search what the dog found. Drug-sniffing dogs should be allowed to search school property, including lockers, to ensure that every student is given the right
free speech/cursing). Furthermore, the 4th amendment isn’t as powerful in school because “students do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the school” (Find Law). While at school students are expected to follow the rules and not bring unlawful substances to school, so when a drug-sniffing dog searches the property they are just enforcing the rules and not infringing on our constitutional rights. Students may feel like their privacy is being violated by these canine searches, but these searches are “generally seen as non-intrusive since there is no expectation of privacy in the air around objects. Drug-sniffing dogs only explore what is within ‘plain smell’”(Center for Public Education; 2007). These officers aren’t going through everyone's personal belongings, they are only searching property that has been identified as suspicious. Overall, we give some of our rights up while at school and these canine searches have been deemed reasonable because they are