People v. J. A.

Mme JUSTICE SPOMER

delivered the opinion of the court:

This appeal by the State from an order suppressing evidence in a juvenile delinquency proceeding raises issues as to the relation between a public school student’s fourth amendment rights and the duty of school officials to discipline and protect the students for whom they stand in loco parentis.

Most of the salient facts in this case are undisputed. The assistant principal of Mascoutah High School received a telephone tip from Sergeant Ingelman, a security officer at nearby Scott Air Force Base, that J. A., a student, had a substance…