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* Piscataway High School, New Jersey
* TLO and another student caught smoking in a school restroom
* Friend cofessed to smoking, while she claimed she was not
* Searched by Vise Pricipal
* Found with marijuana and other drug paraphilia
* Occured March 7th, 1980; Decided January 15th, 1985
* SC rulled in favor of NJ; 6-3
Does The Fourth Amendment against unreasonable searches and seizures apply to searches conducted by school officials in public schools?
"...against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
* Judges decided students have fourth amendment rights at school
* Schools have lower standard of probable cause for searches
* Two-part test to determine reasonableness of school searches
* Court ruled search of T.L.O.'s purse was constitutional
* New precedent for school searches and student privacy
* Argued that T.L.O 4th Amendment right was violated
* Searching her purse was unreasonable and violated her privacy rights
* Didn't Agree with the new standered for school searches policies
* Supreme Court Justices: Justice Stevens, Justice Marshall, and Justice Brennan
Justice Brennan
"It would be incongruous ... to charge teachers with ... [teaching] our system of constitutional democracy, while ... immunizing ... [them] from the need to respect constitutional protections."
State of New Jersey v. Thomas E. Best (2010)
*Recieved a report of a student being under the influence of drugs and that they were his car
* Assistant Principle conducted a search of the students car
* Drugs were found and related paraphilia
State of New Jersey was in favor
Safford Unified School District #1 v. Redding (2009)
* A student was suspected of distributing ibuprofen
*Vice Princple conducted the search
*Which concluded in a strip search
Redding 8 to 1
Vernonia School District 47J v. Acton (1995)
*A 7th grade student and parents refused to sign a consent form for drug testing
* He was suspened from all athletic for the season
Vernonia School District
6 to 3
Officals should be protecting the school environment
Students have a right to privacy
TLO was searched under "reasonable ground"
Being able to search based on suspicion and not "probable cause"