{"id":64782,"date":"2026-09-12T18:53:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T23:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64782"},"modified":"2026-09-12T18:53:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T23:53:04","slug":"cal-4-school-resource-officers-need-rs-for-a-weapons-search-in-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64782","title":{"rendered":"Cal.4: School resource officers need RS for a weapons search in school"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>School resource officers also need reasonable suspicion for a weapons search in school, and here the officer had it. At a middle school no less. <a href=\"https:\/\/www4.courts.ca.gov\/opinions\/documents\/G065591.PDF\">In re N.S.<\/a>, 2026 Cal. App. LEXIS 548 (4th Dist. Sep. 8, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As long as there\u2019s a factual basis for a traffic stop, it\u2019s reasonable, even if pretextual, and \u201ca citation need not be issued for the traffic violation in order for a traffic stop to be considered valid.\u201d United States v. Gustafson, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 202638 (D. Mont. Sep. 8, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant&#8217;s effort to inject a reasonable expectation of privacy into a dog sniff because detection some drugs could reveal a medical condition is rejected. United States v. Ostertag, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 27550 (10th Cir. Sep. 8, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The state conceded standing [but apparently shouldn\u2019t have], but defendant\u2019s girlfriend consented to the search of the premises. Sisson v. State, 2026 Ind. App. LEXIS 300 (Sep. 4, 2026).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>School resource officers also need reasonable suspicion for a weapons search in school, and here the officer had it. At a middle school no less. In re N.S., 2026 Cal. App. LEXIS 548 (4th Dist. Sep. 8, 2026). As long &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64782\">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":[24,27,35,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consent","category-dog-sniff","category-reasonable-suspicion","category-school-searches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64782","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=64782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64783,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64782\/revisions\/64783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}