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CA5: School's policy to require showing an ID to get into secure areas is a reasonable search, even if it is one (which it probably isn't)

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

After a sex offender was able to get into an elementary school and expose himself to a child, the school district implemented a policy where anybody from outside who was accessing secure areas of the school were required to show a picture ID for scanning. This was not an unreasonable search. Meadows v. Lake Travis Indep. Sch. Dist., 2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 18802 (5th Cir. September 8, 2010) (unpublished)*: We also agree with the district court and adopt its reasoning regarding the other constitutional violations alleged by the Meadowses. The Meadowses have not shown in any meaningful way that they were denied procedural due process or that any restriction of Regulation FFF denies their First Amendment rights. Further, the Meadowses claims of the violation of their right to privacy fail because they have not shown that they have a right to privacy in their driver's licenses, nor can they...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on September 11, 2010 (boomark / email).