Schools Searching Cellphones In Colorado

    From the Denver Post we have this on some school searches. One of the rare times that I agree with the ACLU as this shit goes way to far.

Hand over the cell      By Karen Rouse
Denver Post Staff Writer   02/23/2007

Principals in at least three suburban schools have searched students' cellphone text messages when they suspected the students of cheating, drug abuse or other school violations.

Officials in the Douglas and Jefferson school districts say policies that allow them to search lockers, backpacks and cars parked on school grounds also authorize searches of cellphones when there is a "reasonable suspicion" of wrongdoing.

"We have found instances of texts that revealed both drug transactions ... as well as pornographic material stored in pictures," said John Stanek, an attorney for Douglas County schools. That includes phones with "downloaded material as well as pictures of other unsuspecting students," he said.

But an American Civil Liberties Union attorney said the practice is a "dramatic and unprecedented invasion of students' privacy."

"It goes far beyond anything the (U.S.) Supreme Court has authorized," said Mark Silverstein, legal director of the ACLU of Colorado.

   Just ban the dam cells from the school campus and you solve the problem during schools hours. I've got alot more to say on this, later in the morning because these kinds of things really piss me off!

 

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