4th Amendment

It is overwhelming how much controversy there can be over simple statements. It may have been written over two hundred years ago, but people are still confused over this matter. As attorneys, our first intent is to express the reasoning behind student searches. It is obvious that there has been a major increase in the number of student property searches in schools from the time of the drafting of the Fourth Amendment (1791), until now. It …

…of the Fourth Amendment to school searches. It has been found that warrants are not required because they may take up time and interfere with the “maintenance of the swift and informal 1Reasonable cause is defined as a reasonable belief that some illegal substance or material is kept in the space, or something possibly harmful to the safety of the student or student body, or significantly disruptive/dangerous to the overall discipline of the school.