April 21, 2008

California School Searches Students' Cell Phone Messages

In schools across the country, cell phones go on and cell phones get confiscated, often on a daily basis. Students may lose their beloved phone for the rest of the school day. But they don't expect to lose their privacy. "Schools need to understand that just because a student uses a cell phone when he or she is not supposed to doesn't mean the school has a license to go in and read their private messages," said Ann Brick, an ACLU staff attorney in San Francisco. "It's like rummaging through their private letters."

Cell phone seized, but student's privacy saved, Houston Chronicle, April 18, 2008.