lockers as student or school property, and student notification that the school will conduct periodic searches for contraband or will retain a master key to the locker for spot checks. The theory posits that unless school districts have written and distributed a locker policy to students, students may have a high expectation of privacy and school authorities may have to meet higher constitutional standards to conduct a locker search. The reality is that the courts have rarely found a school locker search they didn't like, as their use of reasonable in light of all the circumstances test has allowed state courts to override whatever expectation of privacy other citizens may have in similar circumstances. There is utter certainty that state law, school district regulations, or written school policies that require schools to maintain charge over lockers and to inform students of this policy in writing will override any student privacy concerns that could theoretically be asserted to outlaw a search (Wade 104-114). If lockers were searched more often students wouldn’t have so much to hide. Searches are necessary because horrible things could be held in lockers to harm other students or faculty. Security guards should search the lockers once a week to keep the lockers free of concealed substances and weapons.Vehicle searches gives safety for high school students. Common sense might lead to the conclusion that the law of vehicle searches is quite different, since students' cars are certainly not school property under any theory. However, they still yield their secrets in the face of the reasonableness test. A court found it reasonable for an administrator, acting on a tip that a student was selling marijuana out of his car in the school parking lot, to search the student's clothing. After a large amount of cash in small bills and pieces of paper with a telephone pager number written on them were found, school security guards were calle...
