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Parent alleges repeated classroom searches at Tecumseh High violate students' Fourth Amendment rights
Summary
A Tecumseh parent told the school board that repeated blanket classroom searches for cell phones violate board policy 5103 and students' Fourth Amendment protections, urging the board to stop the practice; the board did not take immediate action at the meeting.
At the public-comment portion of the meeting, parent Matt Durham told the Tecumseh Board of Education that his daughter and other students had been subject to multiple blanket classroom searches for cell phones this school year and that the practice appears to violate the district’s board policy and students’ constitutional rights.
Durham said the searches had interrupted classes three…
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