State v. Meneese

¶23 (dissenting) — Schools are special environments. This is why both the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and article I, section 7 of the Washington Constitution allow student searches in schools to be conducted based on individualized reasonable suspicion, without the necessity of obtaining a warrant supported by probable cause. I would hold that this “school search exception” applies whether a search of a student on school grounds is carried out by a school resource officer (SRO) or another school official, so long as it is related to school policy and not merely a…