158 Wash. App. 49 - State v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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1. “"The presence of weapons in a school environment is a serious problem in schools throughout the country and has specifically impacted the Moses Lake School District (e.g., Barry Loukitas [sic] ). That a Moses Lake school administrator would be concerned about the presence of weapons on the campus of a school in the Moses Lake School District is to be expected. There was an exigency in that lunch was fast approaching and students would be returning to the parking lot. A student could have removed the knife (or any other weapon) from the vehicle. The probative value and reliability of the information used to justify the search, i.e., Officer Lopez's visual observation of a weapon in Respondent Brown's vehicle, was high. Given these considerations and given the circumstances, the 'school search' exception to the warrant requirement applies in this case, and the school administrators' search of Respondent Brown's vehicle was reasonable."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. A.S.

2. “[t]his school district has had serious problems with weapons on campus in the past.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. A.S.

3. “any threat to the order and discipline of the school.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. A.S.