{"id":8310,"date":"2013-02-02T08:18:32","date_gmt":"2013-02-02T08:17:58","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-02T08:17:58","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8310","title":{"rendered":"splc.org: &#8220;School cellphone searches test boundaries of students\u2019 Fourth Amendment rights&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Student Press Law Center: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.splc.org\/wordpress\/?p=4772\">School cellphone searches test boundaries of students\u2019 Fourth Amendment rights<\/a> by Frank LoMonte:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/local\/article\/Search-of-student-s-phone-outrages-dad-4225043.php\">It happened last week<\/a> at an upstate New York high school, where a 14-year-old boy and his girlfriend are now under criminal investigation after a school principal discovered \u201cinappropriate\u201d photos of the girl while searching the boy\u2019s cellphone.<\/p>\n<p>Is this legal? Are there limits to how deeply a school can intrude into a student\u2019s electronic notes, messages and photos?<\/p>\n<p>Despite what many school and law-enforcement officials may insist, the Fourth Amendment very much exists on school grounds. The Supreme Court reaffirmed as recently as 2009 that it\u2019s possible for a school search to go too far, if a search is highly intrusive and is unsupported by reasonable grounds for suspicion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8310\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8310","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}