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Boulder school district agrees to stop searching student cellphones

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

Back in October was this post about Boulder CO school officials searching student cellphones: Colorado school searching students' cellphones for text messages. In a press release this week, the ACLU of Colorado announced that the school district agreed to desist: LOUISVILLE, CO - A spokesperson for the ACLU of Colorado announced today that it welcomes a decision of the Boulder Valley School District (“BVSD”) to limit searches of students’ cell phone text messages, an issue the ACLU raised in a letter made public in October, 2007. In that letter, the ACLU asserted that non-consensual searches of text messages violate a Colorado criminal statute designed to protect the privacy of telephone and electronic communications. New guidelines state that before searching text messages, BVSD administrators must not only satisfy the minimum federal constitutional standard for conducting a search, but must also obtain the consent of the student or parent...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on April 24, 2008 (boomark / email).