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Lakeland Joint School District reviews parent consent form for breathalyzer testing at select events
Summary
Board members reviewed a parent consent form to authorize breathalyzer testing at specific high-school events, debated whether guest students can be covered, and flagged Fourth Amendment and implementation problems; they favored integrating notice into registration and limiting mandatory testing to prom and Battle for the Paddle.
Speaker 1 (Unidentified Speaker) led a review of a proposed parent consent form that would authorize district administrators, school resource officers and armed district safety specialists to use breathalyzers "prior to entering school-sponsored student activities." Board participants said the district must do a better job informing parents and limit automatic testing to a small set of large events.
"We had no policy," Speaker 1 said during the session, describing how prior administrators had authorized breathalyzer checks without a written policy or parent notification, a fact that prompted the board to request a form. The draft language raised immediate questions: does…
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