CHILDREN AND THE LAW
...Delinquency Matters
......School-Related Issues
.........Search of Locker
4 Cards On This Topic:

Public school officials need reasonable suspicion to search locker of juvenile student.

M's suppression motion properly denied where high school security legally searched lockers near the locker of a shooter, and found a sawed-off shotgun in M's locker.

No "search" of M's locker where he was being removed from PE and had no expectation of privacy in backpack and street clothes in locker.

School official justified in investigating report of particular student carrying gun into school by checking contents of his locker; intrusion minimal.