Opinion ID: 794394
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Heading: Phaneuf's past disciplinary problems

Text: 27 A student's past history of drug use can be a factor adding to the mix in a school official's decision to conduct a strip search. See, e.g., Cornfield, 991 F.2d at 1322 (series of recent incidents involving drugs one factor in creating reasonable suspicion to justify strip search); Williams, 936 F.2d at 889 (student's father's alert to the school that he suspected his daughter was using drugs and student's production of a different illegal drug, among other factors, justified strip search); cf. Hedges, 204 F.3d at 117 (student manifesting symptoms of currently being on drugs and possessing unidentified pills created a reasonable suspicion to conduct strip search); Bridgman v. New Trier High Sch. Dist. No. 203, 128 F.3d 1146, 1149 (7th Cir.1997) (student manifesting symptoms of drug use justified limited search). Disciplinary problems by themselves are not necessarily indicia of drug abuse, because most school discipline problems do not involve drug abuse, although many of the most serious do. Cf. Cornfield, 991 F.2d at 1322 (The fact that students in [] a [behavioral disorder] program exhibit inconsistent behavior and that drug users behave erratically does not lead inevitably to a conclusion that a student in a behavioral disorder program is a drug user.). In this case, we are unconvinced that Phaneuf's past discipline, none of which related to drug use, adds much of significance in determining the reasonableness of the initiation of a highly intrusive search, whose only purpose was to find drugs.