many schools across the nation face the harsh reality of increasing violence and drug use within the confinement of the educational buildings. The response by most school administrators is to conduct individualized searches and seizures of student’s lockers‚ backpacks‚ and cellphones‚ hoping to find drugs and weapons‚ or signs of their use. Without reasonable suspicion to suspect weapons or drugs‚ school officials do not lawfully‚ under the Constitution‚ have the right to conduct such unreasonable searches
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Amicus Brief May it Please the Court‚ This brief is in regards to the Bristol School District and their policies. A seventeen-year old student‚ Suzie‚ attended Central High School in Bristol‚ Virginia. During Suzie’s relationship with her boyfriend‚ Cyrus‚ she sent him some very revealing photographs of herself. After their relationship ended‚ Cyrus forwarded some of the most revealing photos to upper classmen in the school. This began to draw unwanted attention to Suzie. It became such a disruption
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EXAMPLE 1 – ESSAY Life sometimes goes wrong under the best of circumstances‚ but what if you spend your days in a hospital bed slowly suffocating to death as cancer eats away at your body? You’re horrified‚ your quality of life is at an all time low and you can’t see any point in delaying the inevitable. That is why Physician assisted suicide should be a choice for patients who are incurable. Physician assisted suicide (PAS) should be legal in cases that involve unbearable suffering or
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performing procedural due process first I would review statements and evidence to decide if the search of the locker is justified at the inception or reasonable in scope. When looking over both options I would make a decision that the search would be reasonable in scope. Immediately after making the decision to search John’s locker I would call him into the office and inform him that his locker will be search with me‚ him and another colleague of the administrative team. At that moment I would inform
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Columnist’s Focus: Carl Hiaasen’s primary focus is political and social. His writing most frequently deals with social and political issues prevalent in our society. His column entitled “Why Some Lawmakers are in Panic” the opposition to fire arm restrictions in the United States. Restrictions on fire arms is a common topic in political debates. His article on taxpayers dollars being a substantial part of the money allotted to the construction of the new Miami Marlins stadium is a political
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adamantly believe that conducting random locker searches several times year without letting students know in advance would be marvelous because it would keep the school safe‚ Legal rights‚ and to check if the locker has a rodent in there or something that is causing an infestation to the school which can be a negative problem towards the school. The first reason is keeping students safe‚ by checking the lockers the security guards can probably find
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The liberties of a citizen is perceived not guaranteed. After 9/11 there was a lack of privacy in the United States government that affect everyday life. While the school own the lockers and the supreme court considers us minors‚ privacy should be extended to students cellphones and lockers. The fourteenth amendment addresses all citizens the same rights and equal protection of the law including minors. The fourth amendment also states and proves the right of the people to be “The right of the people
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the decision process in order to objectively create a capital budget which will be in the long-run interest of the school. This year the Board of Trustees have been presented with eight different capital investment options ranging from the women’s locker room to a new wood chip heating system for the school. Each of these capital investment decisions have been carefully considered and ranked in order of priority by the trustees before meeting with the headmaster and faculty. The trustee’s objective
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message‚ however‚ not act on it. The gatekeeper decides if the message will be viewed by the primary audience. “A watchdog audience has political‚ social‚ or economic power and may base future actions on its evaluation of [the presenters] message.” (Locker‚ 2008). In the case where information of the present quarterly sales is delivered to managers‚ salespeople‚ and customers‚ the managers might be the primary audience. The salespeople are the secondary and customers are watchdogs. A presenter
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Returning from the recent snowstorm that started on January 17‚ students of Melrose High School in New York City‚ noticed a horrible stench coming from one of the lockers. Monk Klutter‚ 18 was found dead in a locker a week later‚ by a school janitor on Monday‚ January 23rd‚ 2017 at 10:35 a.m. “I was walking past one of the lockers when I smelt a horrendous scent‚ it was like rotting eggs.” said Emily Wanderlust‚ 18. "As I was cleaning‚ I noticed something was off‚ it was a pungent scent like rotting
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