                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

GUIDELINES FOR STUDENT SEARCHES (§ 22.1-279.7)

The Board of Education shall develop, in consultation with the Office of the
Attorney General, guidelines for school boards for the conduct of student
searches, including random locker searches, voluntary and mandatory drug
testing, and strip searches, consistent with relevant state and federal laws and
constitutional principles.
		School boards shall adopt and revise, in accordance with the requirements of
this section, regulations governing student searches that are consistent with
the guidelines of the Board.

HISTORY: 1998, c. 655; 1999, c. 650; 2000, c. 648, § 22.1-277.01:2; 2001, cc.
688, 820; 2003, c. 899.