Public Hearing On Drug Dogs At Marin Middle School -CBS5.com - March 19, 2006

Mar 19, 2006 12:51 pm US/Pacific

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(BCN) Trustees of the Sausalito Marin City School District are vowing to press ahead with plans to bring drug-sniffing dogs to a local middle school.

The plan has come under fire from parents, the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

But Board President George Stratigos says a majority of the trustees will not back away from their decision to have the dogs sniff-out the personal belongings of students at Martin Luther King Junior Middle School.

The trustees say they have no evidence drugs are being brought to the school but want to use the monthly inspections to avoid potential problems. A public hearing on the issue is scheduled for Monday night.

Under the program, students would be required to leave their classrooms while the dogs from a Houston firm sniff their backpacks. The inspections would continue until the end of the school year at a cost of $2500.


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