They require administrators to have a reasonable suspicion about the student violating a school rule or law, such as carrying a weapon or possessing a drug. Traverse City's policy also allows for specially trained search dogs to be used at random. Government teacher Vicki Bush said the current policy is adequate. It treats students with respect while still ensuring school administrators can investigate potential problems, she said. Whenever society is willing to compromise its rights out of fear, that society is in danger.
History is a great teacher in that regard.
Other states including Iowa, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin have laws similar to that proposed. And both sides of the debate site case law as support for their stance. A legal opinion done for the House points to an Indiana Court of Appeals case that supported a state law that also removed any privacy in school-owned lockers. On the other side, a Michigan Attorney General's opinion from 1979 requires a warrant for locker or vehicle searches. The Traverse City Record-Eagle.