1.

The Superintendent or his/her designee or administrative personnel shall, except when otherwise specifically ordered by a law enforcement officer, be in charge of the detection process and shall make such decisions and issue orders as such administrative personnel may deem appropriate for the circumstances.

2.

The employee (teacher, principal, school security guard, or administrator) using the metal detectors will receive training on techniques for proper use of metal detectors.

3.

Searches may be either random or general: (see examples)

4.

Administrative personnel shall develop procedures that ensure that the search does not allow students or non-students to be omitted if they are part of the group to be searched.  Additionally, administrative personnel should develop procedures that will be the least intrusive to the daily educational environment.

5.

Metal detectors use shall not be malicious, done willfully or deliberately with the intent to embarrass, humiliate, harass, or intimidate students, employees or non-students, non-employees.

6.

No employee (teacher, principal, school security guard, or administrator) shall selectively use a metal detector on one student or non-randomly selected group of students except:

In the event of such reasonable selective use of a metal detector, the employee (teacher, principal, school security guard, or administrator) may request local law enforcement personnel to be present during the search process or to conduct the detection search on behalf of the school system.

7.

Where administrative personnel choose to subject persons who attend extra­curricular events to metal detector searches, the administrative personnel shall post a sign at the entrance of such events, (i.e. gymnasiums, stadiums, fields, etc.) stating that attendance constitutes voluntary acceptance of a metal detector search.

8.

When the metal detection search policy is first implemented, students and employees will be notified by announcements issued by the administrative personnel (i.e. flyers and/or public address announcements, etc.) over a period of days, thereafter general announcements will be made to remind students of the policy.  The student handbook will inform the students of the School Board policy of using metal detectors for searches.  The public will also be made aware of the use of metal detectors at school and at extracurricular activities through press releases to local newspapers, radio stations, and local cable television stations.  Students and non-students will be made aware that they are subject to being searched by metal detectors any time they are on Board owned property and/or campuses.

9.

The use of a metal detector will require the metal detector to be passed along the front, back, and both sides of the person being scanned without deliberate touching of the body.  The employee (teacher, principal, school security guard, or administrator) using the metal detector may be of either gender, regardless of the gender of the person subject to the metal detection search.

10,

The use of metal detectors must be witnessed by a Board employee (teacher, principal, school security guard or administrator) when students are being scanned by a law enforcement officer.  Whenever possible, a law enforcement officer will conduct the metal detector search where both students and non-­students are being scanned.

1.

Determine the type of search that will be conducted.  A random or a general search may be initiated depending upon various factors such as facility limitation, number of people to be searched, or number of metal detectors available.  Should a random search be conducted, care shall be exercised to be sure that the selection of students and/or non-students to be searched shall be demonstrably according to chance.  One should be able to explain, if called upon to do so, that no bias as to gender, religion, or race entered the selection process.

2.

Where possible, inform students and/or non-students of the intention to search by stating for example, "For the care, welfare, safety and security of the students, staffs and public of the East Feliciana Parish School Board and/or Campus Name, we are conducting a search using metal detectors."

3.

When conducting the search, the student and/or non-student should extend both arms out away from their bodies with palms up.

4.

The metal detector should be passed along the front, back, and both sides of the person being scanned without deliberate touching of the person’s body.

5.

Females being scanned should extend their purses in front of them and the metal detector should be passed on both sides of the purse.  If indicated, the student and/or non-student may be asked to empty the purse into a tray.

6.

Book sack and other closed bags are to be conducted in the same manner as for a purse as set out above.

1.

Instruct the student or non-student to step forward individually.  If safely feasible, request the student or non-student to indicate what metal is causing the alert, and then request the student or non-student to empty all pockets and place the contents on a tray.  The student or non-student should be instructed to pull the pocket linings out so that the administrative personnel can see the empty pockets.  If the student or non-student then clears the detection process without activating the alarm, the detection process shall terminate.

2.

If the student or non-student cannot be safely allowed to remove the offending metal, or having been ordered to do so, fails, then the continuation of the alarm from the detector shall constitute full probable cause to conduct a search of the student's or non-student's person sufficient to locate an implement that may be used as a weapon if one were present.  This search will be conducted according to Board policies: JCAB, Searches of Students, and JCABA, Searches of Student's Person.

3.

Males should open their folded wallets for inspection by the metal detector.

4.

To conclude the search, thank the student and/or non-student for their cooperation and dismiss them.