BOARD POLICY  5137

 

Student Locker Searches

 

A.      The Ironton City Board of Education understands that as a control measure it is reasonably necessary at times, to conduct searches of pupils’ lockers and the contents of those lockers.

 

B.       The Board authorizes the principals or their designees to do either or both of the following:

 

1.        Search any pupil’s locker and the contents of the locker that is searched if the principal reasonably suspects that the locker or its contents contains evidence of a pupil’s violation of a crime statute or of a school rule;

 

2. Search  any pupil’s locker and contents of any pupil’s locker at any time if the Board of Education posts in a conspicuous place in each school building that has lockers available for use by pupils, a notice that the lockers are the property of the Board of Education and that the lockers and the contents of the lockers are subject to random search at any time without regard to whether there is reasonable suspicion that any locker or its contents contains evidence of a violation of a criminal statute or a school rule.

 

C.       Nothing in this policy shall be interpreted to prevent the principals of any district school from searching at any time the locker of any pupil and the contents of any locker of any pupil in the school if an emergency situation exists or appears to exist that immediately threatens the health or safety of any person, threatens to damage or destroy any property, under the control of the Board of Education and if a search of lockers and the contents of the lockers is reasonably necessary to avert a threat or apparent threat.

 

 

 

 

Ohio Revised Code Section 3313.20

(Eff. 9-29-95)

 

 

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