Matter of Gregory M.

Acknowledging that there was not *596even a "reasonable suspicion” of criminality, the Court nevertheless holds that the school security guard was entitled to conduct a search of appellant’s book bag. In so ruling, the Court has reduced the privacy protections of the Fourth Amendment and of article I, § 12 of the State Constitution below all previously recognized minimum thresholds. While I too am horrified by the recent escalation of deadly weapons in the public schools, I cannot agree that the problem should be remedied by a contraction of even the minimal privacy rights that the Supreme Court…