Ruled Constitutional The legal foundation for suspicionless student drug testing rests upon Vernonia v. Acton (1995). In that landmark decision‚ the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of a school policy requiring student athletes to pass random urinalysis tests as a ground for participation in interscholastic sports. The Court rejected a Fourth Amendment claim asserting that such tests are an unconstitutional invasion of privacy. Closely watched nationwide‚ the decision effectively opened
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to do a search of their bag because they could be putting other children at risk. Think of all the school shootings and tragedies that have happened involving weapons. There have been a lot but I’m sure if searches hadn’t taken place than a lot more would have happened. The school owns the lockers so they should have the right to search those and it wouldn’t be of any harm to the kids so if they have nothing to hide they shouldn’t mind the search and if they’re hiding something then it’s good that
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drugs as early as the late 1900s. In 1985 the united states supreme court held in the case new jersey vs T.L.O that unlike law enforcement authorities‚ schools were not required to have probable cause it to secure a warrant in order to carry out searches to students property when common sense indicated that there was cause for suspicion.” It talk about the court disease making drug testing logical without probable cause.’ It may seem odd that a school can require your kid to get tested simply for
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(4)‚ so they approved an anti-drug policy‚ the Student Athlete Drug Policy‚ which requires random drug testing of the school’s student athletes (5). However‚ this became a conflict with the parents of a child named James Acton. The parents refused to sign a consent form to allow their kid to take the drug test because they felt it went against the 4th Amendment’s prohibition against “unreasonable” searches (6). The case was dismissed in the Federal District Court and was appealed to the Court of
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bill of rights is the name of the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. James Madison wrote The 4th Amendment is about people having the right to have privacy and feel secure in their persons‚ houses and not having unreasonable searches and seizures‚ and one shall not be violated‚ and no warrants shall issue‚ but upon probable cause. In other words‚ the 4th amendment is about having privacy‚ no one is allowed to search you unless there’s a warrant. The 4th Amendment deals with protecting
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Columnist’s Focus: Carl Hiaasen’s primary focus is political and social. His writing most frequently deals with social and political issues prevalent in our society. His column entitled “Why Some Lawmakers are in Panic” the opposition to fire arm restrictions in the United States. Restrictions on fire arms is a common topic in political debates. His article on taxpayers dollars being a substantial part of the money allotted to the construction of the new Miami Marlins stadium is a political
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Amicus Brief May it Please the Court‚ This brief is in regards to the Bristol School District and their policies. A seventeen-year old student‚ Suzie‚ attended Central High School in Bristol‚ Virginia. During Suzie’s relationship with her boyfriend‚ Cyrus‚ she sent him some very revealing photographs of herself. After their relationship ended‚ Cyrus forwarded some of the most revealing photos to upper classmen in the school. This began to draw unwanted attention to Suzie. It became such a disruption
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Education Law and Regulation (ED 674) – FINAL EXAM Question 1 Breaking down the first case of Stew Starr at Caldwellia High School his provocative web page advocating the recreational use of illegal drugs by students was clearly something that did not belong in the educational environment. In the landmark decision of 1969‚ the U.S. Supreme Court in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District declared that students “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression
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to act upon. Slamming the locker and hurriedly dispersing‚ provides reasonable suspicion that the students were involved in an inappropriate activity. Although‚ Mr. Smith has reasonable suspicion of acting in this case‚ there are limits to the scope of his investigation. Mr. Smith would be justified in searching the locker‚ but based on the information presented‚ that may be the limitation of his search. If he found some type of illegal or inappropriate item in the locker‚ then he would have the authority
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Barbara Ehrenreich I could drift along like this‚ in some dreamy proletarian idyll‚ except for two things. One is management. If I have kept this subject on the margins thus far it is because I still flinch to think that I spent all those weeks under the surveillance of men (and later women) whose job it was to monitor my behavior for signs of sloth‚ theft‚ drug abuse‚ or worse. Not that managers and especially "assistant managers" in low-wage settings like this are exactly the class enemy. In
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