Board Alters Locker Search Plan
Associated Press
October 23, 2007
KPUA-TV
HONOLULU — The Board of Education is backing off a plan to have random searches of student lockers with drug-sniffing dogs.
A board committee has decided there must be some grounds for suspicion before an invasive search of student personal belongings can be conducted.
The board's Special Programs Committee voted 5-4 to reverse its previous approval of searches without cause.
The changes in rules for searching student lockers are part of a sweeping new anti-drug program for all public schools in the islands.
Discovery of marijuana by a drug-sniffing dog at three Maui schools prompted the new initiative.
Unannounced searches still will be allowed in public areas such as cafeterias, gyms and bushes around school buildings. | 
