Student Rights at School at Risk
Thanks to reader Watching. Action is needed here. There is a bill affecting the rights of students at school to be searched - moving through the Legislature. This bill, SB 6023 , wants to "include searches by school resource officers and local police school liaison officers within the warrantless school search exception." From Publicola : In the runup to the this week's legislative deadline (policy bills need to make it out of committees by Friday in the state senate), the Republicans unilaterally pushed a bill through the law and justice comittee today that jeopardizes the civil rights of students accordig to the ACLU. "This is the 'policization' of our schools," ACLU lobbyist Shankar Narayan said coining a term he likened to militarization. The bill , sponsored by GOP Sens. Steve O'Ban (R-28, University Place) and Pam Roach (R-31, Auburn), would allow law enforcement officers to conduct searches of students without ...