No. 5147

students

Series 5000

locker use and inspection

Policy

It is the policy of the Region 15 Board of Education to provide students with a safe, convenient, and private place to keep or store clothing, books, and other personal articles when not in actual use.  Individual lockers are made available to students for this purpose.

Lockers are not owned by students; they are State property held in trust by the Board of Education of Regional School District 15.  While regulating and supervising their use, school administrators act as agents of the owners, the State. 

The use of the lockers is limited to the keeping or storing of those articles which, by their nature or presence on school property, do not violate any applicable State of local law, regulation or ordinance, rules of the Board of Education or jeopardize the health, safety, or welfare of persons occupying the school.  To illustrate, the depositing of liquor, guns, gasoline, or other flammable or explosive materials in a locker is prohibited.

It is expected that lockers will be clean and orderly.

If the school administration has reasonable cause to believe that there is an article in a student’s locker which does not conform to these limitations, the Principal or his designee shall have the authority to open and inspect the locker for the suspected article.  This authority shall be exercised in such a way as to give respect to the privacy of the student’s locker consistent with the safety and welfare of the occupants of the school.  Subject to the foregoing limitation, the student whose locker is to be inspected shall , when reasonable, be present at the time his locker is opened.

In all cases, the inspection shall be carried out by the Principal or his designee.

Notification of this policy shall be sent to parents of new students at the beginning of their first year in the high school.

Adopted:

4

January

1971

Revision Approved:

28

September

1998