It seems possible that in the Las Cruces Public Schools security trumps privacy. It also seems to trump any respect for the students and employees:

“…When the Las Cruces school board meets Jan. 15, they will return to a discussion on a draft of student and employee searches, which may include pat-downs by administrators, parking lot inspections and random desk searches “for any reason, at any time, without notice and without consent.”"

link: School district’s search policy rankles some

Would you allow your child to undergo such searches? - The assumption is that everyone is suspect unless proven otherwise. It is not only students; it is employees too. Such actions are in the name of security. Is this the social norm that citizens want? You have no privacy. You have no civil rights.

Catherine Forsythe
Director of Operations
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Tags: schools, students, employees, searches, civil rights, privacy, security