The Los Angeles Unified School board voted Tuesday to end the controversial practice of randomly searching students.
LAUSD school board member Nick Melvoin, left, schools Supt. Austin Beutner and board President Monica Garcia before the board voted to end a policy of random searches.
Los Angeles school leaders voted Tuesday to end a policy of randomly searching students with metal detectors during the school day, a decades-old practice that a coalition of students and advocates has been trying to eliminate for years. More than 100 student activists and community advocates — part of a coalition called Students Not Suspects that includes the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, United Teachers Los Angeles, and Public Counsel, among others — swarmed the L.A. Unified school board meeting to speak against the policy.
The policy’s supporters, however, say the low numbers of weapons seized show the searches are effective. Tuesday’s resolution calls for the superintendent to end the searches by July 2020, and to come up with an alternative policy that would avoid an increased police presence at schools. Under the current policy, administrators search students.
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