- Target:
- Windermere High School or Orange County Public School's (OCPS)
- Region:
- United States of America
I, a student of Windermere High School, (a new overflow school in Windermere, Florida), has recently become acutely aware of a growing problem in my school. The problem that has risen is one of student rights on school grounds. At Windermere High School there has been a increase in contraband including, but not limited to, e-cigarette products, vaporizers, along with wax vaporizers (street named "Dabs"). This growth of contraband on school grounds has caused a massive increase in searches of students, although this response seem appropriate, some boundaries have been over stepped. Examples of this are, but not limited to, students being searched without reasonable suspicion, along with repeated, unwarranted searches of students.
This Petition had been created in order to farther improve student and school staff relations by enforcing stricter reasonable suspicion guidelines in relation, but not limited to, searches of students and persons on school grounds, disciplinary actions enacted by school staff, along with evidence that has been presented as reasonable suspicion to enable actions followed out by school staff. The way in which I propose this to happen, is that in order for evidence or statements to be deemed reasonable suspicion, the on-campus-law-enforcement-officer (school resource officer, SRO) would act as the judge to decide if the presented evidence is deemed as reasonable suspicion. This would allow for a person works with and knows the law to affirm that reasonable suspicion is present and in order.
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The Implement stricter in-school reasonable suspicion guide lines. petition to Windermere High School or Orange County Public School's (OCPS) was written by Robbie McDougald and is in the category Children's Rights at GoPetition.