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ScottDLS wrote:"In loco parentis" arguments were rejected more often in the late '60's to '70's (for restrictions on college students) ...

As you say, back then most of these cases concerned college students. Many colleges at that time were run like convents. Students were denied basic rights of freedom of speech and assembly. And even though the age of majority was not uniformly 18, many students were legal adults.

The pendulum has swung back, as the cliché goes, because these cases now concern drugs and weapons rather than first-amendment rights.

- Jim

The cases that were reported recently, someone talked. That is usually how these things blow up.

I don't know if any student refused to hand over the keys.

These searches probably would not stand up to constitutional scrutiny, because there is no probable cause. However, no one has taken the school districts or police to court.

- Jim

School districts think that they can search students' vehicles off-campus. So far, they have gotten away with it.

- Jim

Yeah, and this is Amarillo, not some pansy enclave.

- Jim

Someone got the law wrong.

The 1997 change allowed people with CHLs to have handguns on school grounds (except when and where school-sponsored activities are held). At that time, it was still generally illegal for non-CHL holders to have a handgun in their vehicle.

Depending upon how you look at it, unlicensed vehicle carry of handguns became legal in 2005 or 2007.

It has always been legal under state law to have a long gun in a vehicle, if the person were not doing something threatening.

- Jim