When should the following training be provided?

Search and Seizures

What knowledge will our protocol provide for your campus administrators?

  1. Learning the requirements for a reasonable search and the risks or illegal searches
  2. Understanding student’s rights in a search
  3. Identifying what items can be searched
  4. Knowing the steps to take before, during, and after a student search
  5. Considering when to involve law enforcement/SROs
  6. Documenting searches
  7. Notifying parents

Confiscation of Personal Items or Devices

What reviewing this protocol will offer to your administrators:

  • The need to align confiscation of items guidelines with the Student Code of Conduct 
  • Proper procedures and chain of custody once an item/device has been removed from the student’s possession
  • Staff that can confiscate items/devices and under what conditions
  • Documentation once an item or device has been confiscated for accountability
  • Requirements and documentation for notifying parents