(9) A school principal or a school employee designated by the principal, if she or he has reasonable suspicion that a prohibited or illegally possessed substance or object is contained within a student's locker or other storage area, may search the locker or storage area. The district school board shall require and each school principal shall cause to be posted in each public K-12 school, in a place readily seen by students, a notice stating that a student's locker or other storage area is subject to search, upon reasonable suspicion, for prohibited or illegally possessed substances or objects. This subsection does not prohibit the use of metal detectors or specially trained animals in the course of a search for illegally possessed substances or objects.
Florida School Discipline Laws & Regulations: Search and Seizure
Florida School Discipline Laws & Regulations: Search and Seizure
Category: Conditions on Use of Certain Forms of Discipline
Subcategory: Search and Seizure
State: Florida
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LAWS
1006.09. Duties of school principal relating to student discipline and school safety.
REGULATIONS
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