1. Warm Up
“We find that testing students who participate in extracurricular activities is a reasonably effective means of addressing the School District's legitimate concerns in preventing, deterring, and detecting drug use.”
“. . . drug testing could lead to mistrust and resistance from students and thus inadvertently perpetuate problems ”
Read the quotes. Based on them, do you think drug testing should be allowed in schools? Why or why not? Explain your answer in a couple of sentences.

2. Warrants
A warrant is a court order that allows police to search and seize potential evidence
There must be a genuine reason to do the search (probable cause)
Police must file an affidavit, a sworn statement of facts and circumstances, that provides probable cause to believe a search is justified
Police must “knock and announce” in order to enter a building to search it

3. Police officers follow strict protocols when conducting searches
Police officers follow strict protocols when conducting searches. Crime scene investigators must obtain each item legally; otherwise, the evidence could be challenged in court.

4. Exclusionary Rule
Evidence seized in an unlawful search is excluded from a trial
Rule has been used in Federal Courts since 1914
Mapp v. Ohio
Applied this rule to the states
Importance: The person who committed the crime may go free if an important piece of evidence is excluded

6. Searches Without a Warrant
Searching a person’s belongings when arrested
Stop and Frisk
Consent to search
Border and Airport searches
Vehicle search (with probable cause)
“In plain view”
Hot Pursuit
Emergency situations (ex: bomb threat)

7. Narcotics detection dogs are highly trained to work with police officers. When on duty, they are permitted to walk around a car at a traffic stop, as this takes place on public property.

8. Frisking, also called a pat down, is when a police officer searches a person’s outer clothing for weapons. A pat down may be conducted when there is reasonable suspicion of criminal activity.