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Ubiquity of school resource officers requires remand for determination of what this one's function was: cop or school official?

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

The ubiquity of school resources officers led the Tennessee Supreme Court to remand a case for a determination of just what the officer's role was at this school: school official or cop? [In school search cases in general, this case might prove to be significant because it asks the right questions.] R.D.S. v. State, 2008 Tenn. LEXIS 28 (February 6, 2008): Increasingly, SROs and other law enforcement officers are becoming more involved in searches on school premises. The majority of jurisdictions which have faced the issue of what standard to apply to SROs or law enforcement officers assigned to schools have applied the reasonable suspicion standard. See, e.g., People v. Dilworth, 169 Ill. 2d 195, 661 N.E.2d 310, 317, 214 Ill. Dec. 456 (Ill...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on February 09, 2008 (boomark / email).