{"id":27159,"date":"2017-05-13T14:27:54","date_gmt":"2017-05-13T19:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=27159"},"modified":"2017-05-13T14:27:54","modified_gmt":"2017-05-13T19:27:54","slug":"oh-school-protocol-to-search-unattended-book-bags-made-this-search-reasonable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=27159","title":{"rendered":"OH: School protocol to search unattended book bags made this search reasonable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBased on the facts of this case, we hold that the school&#8217;s protocol requiring searches of unattended book bags\u2014to determine ownership and whether the contents are dangerous\u2014furthers the compelling governmental interest in protecting public-school students from physical harm. We further hold that the school employees&#8217; search of the unattended book bag belonging to appellee, Whetstone High School student Joshua Polk, was limited to furthering that compelling governmental interest and was reasonable under the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supremecourt.ohio.gov\/rod\/docs\/pdf\/0\/2017\/2017-Ohio-2735.pdf\">State v. Polk<\/a>, 2017-Ohio-2735, 2017 Ohio LEXIS 810 (May 11, 2017).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBased on the facts of this case, we hold that the school&#8217;s protocol requiring searches of unattended book bags\u2014to determine ownership and whether the contents are dangerous\u2014furthers the compelling governmental interest in protecting public-school students from physical harm. We further &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=27159\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-school-searches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27160,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27159\/revisions\/27160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}