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NJ: School officials do not need a warrant to search and seize evidence because school officials act as parents of students.
TLO: School officials are employees of the State and they have no right to act as parents.
NJ: School officials must have broad powers in order to control student conduct.
TLO: School officials are public employees and are obligated to respect every student rights.
NJ: TLO's behavior furnished a reasonable basis for searching her purse.
TLO: The search of her purse was unreasonable and led to her confession.
NJ: The decision to search TLO's purse was justified by Mr. Choplick's well-founded suspicion that TLO had broken a rule by smoking in the bathroom.
TLO: Her confession was tainted by the allegedly unlawful search.
NJ: The court agreed that a search by a school official does not violate the Fourth Amendment so long as the official "has reasonable grounds to believe that student possesses evidence of illegal activity or activity that would interfere with school discipline and order.
TLO: The juvenile court went back for determination of whether TLO had knowingly and voluntarily waived her Fifth Amendment rights before confessing.