RE: Drug Sniffing Dogs in the Classroom (May 27)

I have some thoughts regarding your article on drugs in high schools.

Following the use of drug-sniffing dogs to seach lockers, Sgt. Brad Brand
of the Halton police thinks the next logical step is to take them into the
classroom.

He is either foolish, or willfully dishonest. He does not seem to think
that Halton-area high schol students should have a reasonable expectation
of privacy; so it seems to me that the next logical step is to conduct
random, warrantless searches of the students' bedrooms.

In fact, why stop there? Drugs can be easily concealed within body
cavities; so why don't we conduct random, warrantless strip searches on
school grounds?

All this talk of directing criminal law enforcement resources to wage a
war against drugs distracts us from the more difficult question - why are
these criminal sanctions not working in the first place?

Kelly T. Conlon, Hamilton.