8th Circuit Court - Random Searches Violate Student Rights

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Drugs, weapons and other illicit materials constitute a growing menace in schools throughout the country.

In Minnesota, zero tolerance statutes provide broad discretion for school administrators to discipline students who engage in violence or possess weapons. See Minn. Stat. sec. 15.86 (public bodies must meet zero tolerance policies); Minn. Stat. sec. 121A.44 (one-year expulsion for students with firearms at schools). (Missouri law, too, compels a one-year suspension or expulsion for students who bring firearms to school.)

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8th Circuit Court - Random Searches Violate Student Rights

The discretion, however, is not limitless.

But as students returned to their classrooms recently, they were greeted with a favorable ruling by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals regarding their Fourth Amendment right against unreasona...

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