Ass'n of Indep. Sch. of Greater Wash. v. Dist. of Columbia

JAMES E. BOASBERG, United States District Judge

The Fourth Amendment's requirement of individualized suspicion stands as a bulwark *266against impermissible intrusions upon our citizens' persons, places, and effects. In a "closely guarded category" of contexts, however, Chandler v. Miller, 520 U.S. 305, 309, 117 S.Ct. 1295, 137 L.Ed.2d 513 (1997), the government may be permitted to circumvent this constraint where its needs outweigh individuals' privacy interests. Here, the Court must determine whether private nursery-school teachers in the District of Columbia fall within the narrow band of those…