Can teachers legally search through your phone?

The contents of your cell phone are protected by California law. You have a right to say no if a teacher asks to look through your phone. Know your rights. ... If you do say yes, you give the school the right to look through your phone, and possibly to use what they find can be used as evidence against you or others. read more

It depends on the agreement that the owner has with the school district, or the individual school, or both. In most cases, parents agree to the school acting in loco parentis for the student, while the student is in school/on school grounds. read more

The contents of your cell phone are protected by California law. You have a right to say no if a teacher asks to look through your phone. Know your rights. read more

As an attorney who represents juveniles charged with a crime and as a husband of a teacher I am often asked can the _____(teacher, principal, resource officer, cop or insert authoritative figure) go through my cell phone. The answer for whether the police could search the phone was made clear in State v. read more