In 1980, a teacher found two girls smoking in the bathroom in the non-smoking area. The teacher was forced to search her bag after she refused she had been smoking. They found marijuana in her purse. T.L.O was taken to the police station and finally confessed she had sold marijuana at school. She was sentenced to a year of probation. The State Supreme Court overturns the decision, stating that T.L.O.’s 4th Amendment rights had been violated.
I believe that T.L.O.’s search was reasonable. Something could of happened to her or somebody else and the school would of have to be responsible for it. There for they did have a good reason to search her. The search did make the school safer, she sold marijuana to other students, so not only she would be all crazy, but other students too, and they are under the school’s responsibility. People that do drugs will get crazy and have a non-sense mind.
In a way her T.L.O’s rights were violated by the search because she has the right to privacy and obviously she didn’t get any of that when the vice principal was searching her purse. I do agree with the court’s decision in the case of New Jersey v. TLO because
She has the right to privacy, everybody does, and the vice principal didn’t respect her right.
