In school‚ student’s Fourth Amendment rights are limited. Teachers and school administrators are legally allowed to search students without a warrant. Student’s basic rights are being violated and it shouldn’t be legal. Their rights shouldn’t be limited because it invades student’s privacy. Also‚ these searches could be unreasonable and suspicion less. These students can be searched without a warrant. People in school shouldn’t have their rights limited and violated just because of suspicious teachers
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Dave Gorman November 20‚ 2008 Writing About World Affairs Word Count: 708 Warrantless Wiretapping Since the September 11‚ 2001 attacks on the United States‚ many of the counterterrorism measures taken by President George W. Bush and his administration have been questioned concerning their legality‚ morality and practicality. Chief among the issues being debated is that of warrantless wiretapping and data mining inside of the United States. This unprecedented use of executive power
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exclusion or suppression of evidence. This role prevents the government from using evidence in trial which was to be derived from an illegal search and seizure arrestor interrogation. There are several exceptions to the exclusionary rule that I have found and these are: 1. The good-faith exception-any evidence gained by law enforcement using a search warrant
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There is an Exception to the Rule There is an Exception to the Rule This memo is in relation to the California Supreme Court’s ruling in the case of Tarasoff (1976). Here is a brief history of this case. In October of 1969‚ Prosenjit Poddar murdered Tatiana Tarasoff. Prior this incident‚ he had disclosed his intentions of wanting to hurt Tatianna to his therapist Dr. Lawrence Moore‚ a Psychologist at the University of California. Although this information was made available to the campus police
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Personal Searches‚ Good or Bad? Would you rather have privacy‚ or be safe? It is a tough decision‚ but it is better to be safe than sorry. In schools‚ the crime rate has gone up‚ and more people are getting hurt‚ even if not by guns. However‚ there are several ways to cut down on these crimes during school‚ and other school activities. Some schools have already recognized this‚ and are currently using it. Schools should start having personal searches as well as regular locker searches to
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In my criminal justice classes‚ I learned that there are many amendments that protects citizens when they are arrested. After September 11‚ and the terrorist attacked‚ President Bush passed the Patriot Act. Many people were unhappy because it allows police officers and federal agents to invade our privacy. Many laws passed into effect and all the police departments started to share information with ICE‚ FBI and other federal agencies‚ nationwide and locally. Many people do not know their rights
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forbids is not all searches and seizures‚ but unreasonable searches and seizures” (Stewart). Random searches of students are permitted by the Constitution and need to be allowed. The court case of T.L.O. v. New Jersey proved that searches in the school setting are both permissible and reasonable. The case represents students as a whole and shows that they are not above accountability‚ and school faculty members are in a position to act as the guardians of the students. Random searches of students on
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Although conducting random locker searches are beneficial in exceptional and deficient ways‚ many citizens will disagree with being able to have locker searches. Conducting locker searches could also help detect illegal substances and weapons‚ used for bullying or even to seriously injure a peer. On the other hand‚ locker searches violates privacy. First and foremost‚ conducting locker searches can discover atrocious students with illegal substances. An abundance of schools have an enormous amount
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access to School Lockers? Most legal authorities state that the validity of locker searches is dependent on the students ’ reasonable expectations of privacy‚ which can be affected by school policies designating the lockers as student or school property‚ and student notification that the school will conduct periodic searches for contraband or will retain a master key to the locker for spot checks (Student Searches and the Law‚ 1995). The theory posits that unless school districts have written and
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IV Amendment The Constitution‚ through the Fourth Amendment‚ protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures by the government. The Fourth Amendment‚ however‚ is not a guarantee against all searches and seizures‚ but only those that are deemed unreasonable under the law. Whether a particular type of search is considered reasonable in the eyes of the law‚ is determined by balancing two important interests. On one side of the scale is the intrusion on an individual’s Fourth Amendment rights
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