YOU DECIDE Jane Doe is a seventh-grade student in Little Rock, subject to random and periodic inspections by school Arkansas. All of the students in Ms. Doe's classroom officials." The school district has expressed general- were ordered to place their belongings, including their ized concerns about weapons and drugs in the schools, backpacks and purses, on the desks in front of them and although there is little evidence that the Little Rock to leave the classroom. School personnel searched the school district has experienced problems with weapons items that the students had left behind. They discov- or with unlawful narcotics. Contraband and other lawful ered marijuana in Jane Doe's purse. The school district material seized by school officials are turned over to regularly conducts searches of randomly selected class- the police. Did the random suspicionless search of Jane rooms. The Secondary Student Rights and Responsibili Doe's backpack violate the Fourth Amendment rights ties Handbook, which is distributed to students, states of students? See Doe v. Little Rock School District, 380 that "book bags, backpacks, purses and similar contain- F.3d 340 (8th Cir. 2004). ers are permitted on school property as a convenience for students," and that "if brought onto school prop- You can find the answer by referring to the Student erty, such containers and their contents are at all times Study Site, edge.sagepub.com/lippmancp4e