Legal Opinion
Kuehn v. Renton School District No. 403
Washington Supreme Court
Decided January 11, 1985No. 49873-3PublishedCited by 51 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWilliams, C.J.
The validity of searches of schoolchildren by school officials is judged by the reasonable belief standard. The reasonable belief standard requires that there be a reasonable belief on the part of the searching school official that the individual student searched possesses a prohibited item. When school officials search large groups of students solely for the purpose of deterring disruptive conduct and without any suspicion of each individual searched, the search does not meet the reasonable belief standard. Because the search at issue here was conducted without individualized suspicion the…
2Cases cited35 opinions
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- Coolidge v. New HampshireSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Monroe v. PapeSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- Camara v. Municipal Court of City and County of San FranciscoSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
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