FREE ESSAY ON RANDOM LOCKER SEARCHES

RANDOM LOCKER SEARCHES

Opposing Side- Random Locker Searches
The IV amendment states "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses,
papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated,
and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause..." This means that a person will
not have their private property searched or taken without a warrant or probable cause.
Therefore, random locker searches are illegal, against civil rights, and wrong because,
if they are done randomly, they are done to students who may or may not have a reason to
be searched and if they do not, its against the law and unconstitutional.
Although the lockers are the property of the school, the contents within are not. The
administrators should not be allowed to go through the lockers purchased by the students
for a whole year. The items in the lockers are the private property of the students and
therefore should not be handled, looked at, inspected, confiscated, or otherwise by the
administration. Modern day schools are not run by the doctrine of loco parentis, which
stated that " school officials were given the right, duty, and responsibility to act in
the place of a parent." This meant that administration can search students and take
things from them that they considered "inappropriate" and they could do so without a
warrant or "probable cause" or "reasonable suspicion." Which does allow the
administration to search a locker or student if they is a "reasonable suspicion" that the
student might have something illegal, but if a random locker search is random then there
is no "reasonable suspicion," and with no "reasonable suspicion" or a warrant, than the
locker search is illegal. A school is run by the constitution and the laws stated in it,
and random locker searches are a blatant violation of the rights promised to the people
in the constitution of the United States.
In conclusion, random locker searches are unconstitutional, and should not be practiced
by the administration. It violates student(s) rights, and constitutional rights. These
types of practices should be outlawed.