The Sixth Circuit ruled that a school district violated an out-of-district student’s due process rights when it removed him from school without providing him with a pre-expulsion hearing, and violated his search and seizure rights when a school administrator viewed text messages on his cell phone that had been properly confiscated.
Continue reading...The United States Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, held that use of a drug-sniffing dog by police officers on the front porch of a suspect’s home, without probable cause, a search warrant, or the homeowner’s consent, constituted an unreasonable search under the Fourth Amendment.
Continue reading...A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has ruled that a school district’s procedure for using drug dogs to survey areas of a school, including sniffing students’ personal belongings when not in their possession during the drug survey, did not violate a student’s Fourth Amendment seizure rights.
Continue reading...The Morning Call reports that the Palisades School Board has adopted a policy that would allow strip searches of students when other students and staff are believed to be in danger.
Continue reading...The Fayette Observer reports that Clarinda and Lionel Shawn Cox, the parents of Justin Cox, have filed suit in federal court against the Sampson County Board of Education, alleging their then-fifth grade son was strip-searched in June 2012 by now-former Union Elementary School Assistant Principal Teresa Holmes for $20 reported missing in the school’s cafeteria.
Continue reading...An Alabama federal district court has ruled that the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment claims made by several students for being subjected to chemical spray (mace) by school resource officers for minor nonviolent rules infractions are for a jury to resolve. The court also ruled that a student had stated valid constitutional claims against a school administrator for use of excessive force and excessive corporal punishment.
Continue reading...The Las Vegas Sun reports that a middle school teacher has filed a lawsuit in federal court against the Clark County School District for allegedly holding her against her will in a room and forcing her to take an “invasive” drug test.
Continue reading...The Associated Press reports in the Citizen-Times that the North Carolina Supreme Court has vacated the North Carolina Court of Appeals decision holding that a bra-lift search at Brunswick County Academy was “degrading, demeaning and highly intrusive.”
Continue reading...According to IndependentMail.com, the Pickens County School Board is considering adopting a policy that would subject all Pickens County School District employees to random drug testing.
Continue reading...The Chicago Tribune reports that the mother of a male student at Round Lake Middle School has filed suit against Round Lake Area School District 116, the middle school’s former principal, and the school’s current assistant principal alleging the 13-year old student was illegally strip searched in April 2012.
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