The Scrava School of Health Sciences and Engineering has had a rise in drug use in recent years. The school got an anonymous tip that a student named Peter Cruman was involved in a Facebook private group which they used to buy and sell drugs. The tip also stated that he had drugs on school grounds that day and was planning a drug deal. Principal Lyons searched Crumans phone and found the private facebook group. Cruman shortly after, admitted to where he was hiding the drugs on campus and where the drug deal was going to go down . The principal did not violate Crumans 4th Amendment rights by performing this search.
The principal did not need a warrant to search Crumans account lawfully. In the case of Hoffa v. United States the U.S. government obtained
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In New Jersey v T.L.O a vice-principal believed a student was violating the law. The vice principal searched a student 's bag and found evidence the student was dealing drugs. The court said that the search of a student by a school official will be justified when there are reasonable grounds for suspecting that the search will turn up evidence that is violating school code or the law. In the case of Klump v. Nazareth Area School District school officials did not see a drug related text message until after the school searched the cell phone. The court said that it 's only lawful to search if the official has reasonable grounds to suspect the search will provide evidence the student has violated school rules and if the search is related to the reasoning for the initial search. The evidence that gives the suspicion needs to be provided before the search to be lawful. Based on the two precedents the search that the principal conducted was lawful. The school had reasonable suspicion because of the anonymous tip to believe that searching Cruman would turn up evidence that violate the law and school