6.012. Student Search and Seizure
6.012. Student Search and Seizure
Each student is entitled to a reasonable expectation of privacy with respect to his/her person, locker or desk consistent with the welfare of the school community, state statutes and principals of constitutional law.
Recognizing that the welfare of persons in the school community and the protection may require the search of a student’s person, locker or desk, the Executive Director shall prepare guidelines for professional staff regarding such searches on school property.
Reference: Connecticut General Statutes §54-33n (Search of School
Lockers and Property)
ADOPTED: June 1, 2000
Policy 6.012A. Procedure – Student Search and Seizure
The Executive Director, school administrator, and law enforcement officials are authorized to search a student’s person or personal affects, such as a purse, or book bag, or of a student’s desk or lockers, and any other school property available for use by students, for weapons, contraband or the fruits of a crime when there are reasonable grounds for suspecting that the search will turn up evidence that the student has violated or is violating either the law or school rules.
Any search pursuant to this policy shall be reasonably related in scope to the circumstances that justified the search in the first place. The scope of such a search shall be considered reasonable when the measures adopted are reasonably related to the objectives of the search and are not excessively intrusive in light of the age and sex of the student and the nature of the infraction.