To facilitate a search that is found to be necessary of students, school visitors, containers or packages, metal detectors and other devices designed to indicate the presence of dangerous weapons, drug paraphernalia or drugs may be used in searches, including hand-held models that are passed over or around a student's or visitor's body, and students, visitors, containers and packages may be required to pass through a stationary detector.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 49-6-4207
Use of metal detectors
Acts 1981, ch. 368, § 2; T.C.A., § 49-9-408; Acts 1988, ch. 727, § 8; 1994, ch. 636, §§ 8, 9.
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