On 3/09/10, Wendell wrote:
> Scenario: As an administrator, your counselor comes to you
> and says that a female student sent a naked "crotch shot" to
> a male student via cell phone and that the male student was
> showing the picture and sending it to others.
>
> Question: If I get a report of drugs, alcohol, weapons, or
> whatever, I can legally search a student and/ or locker,
> backpack, trapper keeper, etc as long as I have reasonable
> suspicion and keep the search within reasonable scope. What
> about a cell phone? Can we legally "search" the contents of
> a cell phone?

Yes, if there is reasonable suspicion; the New Jersey v TLO
decision applies the same as it does for other searches.

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