Common use of Personal Searches Clause in Contracts

Personal Searches. A student’s person and/or personal effects (e.g. purse, book bag, etc.) may be searched whenever a school authority has reasonable suspicion to believe that the student is in possession of illegal or unauthorized materials. If a pat down search of a student’s person is conducted, it will be conducted in private by a school official of the same sex and with an adult witness present. If extreme emergency conditions require a more intrusive search of a student’s person, such a search may only be conducted in private by a school official of the same sex, with an adult witness of the same sex present, and only upon prior approval of the principal or one of his superiors, unless the health or safety of students will be endangered by the delay which might be caused by following these procedures.