7440B - METAL DETECTOR SEARCH PROCEDURES
The Superintendent shall be responsible for the monitoring and enforcement of guidelines relative to metal detector search procedures. The Principal shall have the authority to request metal detector searches, and searches shall not be conducted in the absence of such a request.
The purpose of the metal detector search is to discourage students from bringing weapons and/or other unauthorized objects (e.g., vape pens and other prohibited equipment/devices) into the schools. Accordingly, metal detectors may be used at District schools and school-related functions of such schools, on a random and periodic basis.
All students entering schools and school-related functions of such schools are subject to search.
Metal detector searches will be conducted by the Principal using hand-held scanning devices.
A. Students shall not be informed in advance regarding the specific dates on which, or the locations where metal detector searches will occur.
B. All students entering the school or school-related function are subject to search.
C. Prior to use in conducting a metal detector search pursuant to these guidelines, each search device to be used shall be examined by a person familiar with its operation to determine if it is in proper working order. A metal detector search device shall not be used if there is any question as to whether it is in proper working order.
D. As to each individual search, the Principal will ask the student to remove all metal objects from their person (e.g., belt buckles, jewelry) and to place the metal objects and any bags, backpacks, briefcases, knapsacks, purses, or parcels on a table.
E. The search is directed to a search for weapons and/or other unauthorized objects (e.g., vape pens and other prohibited equipment/devices); however, other contraband discovered in the course of a metal detector search may also be removed from any student.
F. All property removed from the student as a result of the above procedures that may be legitimately brought on school premises or to school functions will be returned to the student. All other property will not be returned to the student.
G. Property removed from the student or the student's bags or parcels, possession of which is a violation of the Code of Conduct school rules, Board policy and administrative guidelines, and/or the law, shall cause a student to be disciplined in accordance with the Code of Conduct and may subject the student to criminal prosecution and/or juvenile proceedings for violations of law.
H. Nothing in the procedures set forth above shall limit the authority of the Board and Board employees to removeother contraband from a student, and to otherwise search a student when there is reasonable suspicion to believethat a particular student is in possession of an article or thing, the possession of which constitutes inappropriatebehavior under the Code of Conduct.