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What To Do When… Your Kid Goes to College.
On this legal video podcast chat in Critzer Cardani’s What To Do When… Campus podcast series, join our hosts Jackie Critzer and Scott Cardani as they chat about Students and Campus Law in What To Do When… Your Kid Goes to College. In this episode College Campus Life, Campus Police, and College students right to privacy in searches are included in their chat. They clarify that campus police have jurisdiction similar to city police and can make arrests based on reasonable suspicion, not just probable cause. They emphasize the importance of not providing unnecessary information and only giving required documents like a license, registration, and proof of insurance during traffic stops. They also address privacy rights in dorm rooms, advising students to deny permission for searches and to document any forced entries. Additionally, they discuss the need for warrants to search locked items and the potential for roommates to give permission for searches.
Tune in today for not only our top take-aways, but also some chat about the following subject matters and other helpful action items from a ‘legal chat slant’ from Critzer Cardani’s legal partners.
* Jackie Critzer and Scott Cardani emphasize the importance of not providing unnecessary information to campus police and only giving required documents like a license, registration, and proof of insurance during traffic stops.
* Scott Cardani and Jackie Critzer discuss the role of campus police on college campuses, clarifying that they are sworn officers with jurisdiction similar to city police.
* Scott Cardani and Jackie Critzer discuss the right to privacy in dorm rooms, noting that while it is limited, students still have some privacy rights.
* If campus police force their way into a room, Scott Cardani suggests documenting the incident as any evidence obtained without proper procedure may be inadmissible in court.
* Advise students to have a locked storage container for personal items in the dorm room for an extra layer of privacy.
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What To Do When… Intro 00:01
Welcome to What To Do When… A podcast from real lawyers with real perspective, where we explore a variety of legal issues and scenarios. Each week we focus on a new topic and discuss what to do when and if any of these legal scenarios ever happened to you or a loved one. With over 40 years of combined legal experience, our hosts offer their unique perspectives and insights on a range of real life legal situations.
Jackie Critzer 0:28
Hi. Welcome back to another episode of What To Do When… here at Critzer Cardani in Richmond, Virginia. I’m Jackie.
Scott Cardani 0:34
I’m Scott. Jackie, what’s on the docket for today?
Jackie Critzer 0:36
What To Do When… Your Kids Go to College.
Speaker 1 0:40
Ooh, maybe it should be what to know when your child goes back to College.
Scott Cardani 0:43
maybe, maybe…
Scott Cardani 0:45
Yeah, I’m intimately involved my my daughter just went to college and your son just went to college.
Jackie Critzer 0:50
I mean, crazy.
Scott Cardani 0:51
Crazy. I think the first thing we need to talk about is police on college campuses.
Jackie Critzer 0:56
Flashlight cops or No?
Scott Cardani 0:57
No, oh, the misunderstanding that they actually aren’t cops that are like mall cops is absolutely false. Yeah, so when you’re on campus and you have a campus police officer, it’s basically like the campus is a mini city, and those officers are sworn to protect that mini city. So anything dealing with a college campus or closely aligned with the college campus, they have jurisdiction on, just like a police officer.
Jackie Critzer 1:27
Well, so – are we talking we always talk about Virginia as the jurisdiction, but we’re talking about Virginia campuses. So we’re talking about VCU, Virginia Commonwealth University. We’re talking about James Madison. We’re talking about liberty in Lynchburg. We’re talking about Old Dominion in Norfolk. We’re talking about all of them, everywhere in Virginia.
Scott Cardani 1:43
Virginia Union as well.
Jackie Critzer 1:44
Oh, yeah, all of them. Oh, Virginia State union as well. Okay, okay, yeah.
Jackie Critzer 1:48
So – Any college if they have, I don’t, I can’t say that every single college has their own police force, but if they do, then they are functioning just like a police officer, and there’s no difference. What actually, if you really want to get nitty gritty, this is the problem. So we always talk about probable cause, not talking to police, they have to have probable cause to arrest you on a campus that gets limited a little bit because of the fact that you’re on a college campus, you’re younger, all these things, you sign all these documents to be on the campus.
Jackie Critzer 2:26
Basically you you give up some rights to do that. Is that right?
Scott Cardani 2:31
Yeah – So they have to have what’s called a reasonable suspicion, which is a little less, but I mean probable cause, honestly, so low that it really doesn’t matter, but so they have to have a reasonable suspicion to enter your room or talk, you know, arrest you or whatever it is. So again, as we always say number one, don’t give information that you’re not asked and don’t give information you don’t have to give. If you’re in your car and you get pulled over on campus, license, registration and insurance is all you’re required. So you know, if you get stopped for a DUI on campus, license, registration and proof of insurance is what you need. Okay, if they ask you to do the sobriety test and all that, you don’t need to do those and anything you do is helping them, not you.
Jackie Critzer 3:21
All right…
Scott Cardani 3:24
That’s another thing I think is really important, is, do you have a right to privacy in your dorm?
Jackie Critzer 3:31
Well, I think I do. I remember being in school and locking the door and I would have, I would have expected privacy in my dorm room?
Scott Cardani 3:42
Yeah, you do have a right to privacy, but again, it’s a little bit limited, but not much. You still have a right to privacy. So if the campus please knock on your door and say, Hey, we want to search your room, what do you say?
Jackie Critzer 3:54
No.
Scott Cardani 3:54
No, thank you. But what if they force their way in?
Jackie Critzer 3:59
Is there much you can do at that point anyway?
Scott Cardani 4:01
No, you just let them do what they’re going to do what they’re going to do and realize that you have an out, maybe with us and hiring a lawyer and working through that. But, yeah, this whole thing where people are fighting police and doing all this stuff, that’s not the way to go about. The way to go about it is to don’t give them permission to do anything. If they force their way. Then you’re when the charges come. It’s basically called fruit of the poisonous tree. Document. Anything they get with not doing it right doesn’t come in as evidence against you anyways.
Jackie Critzer 4:30
Well, I think it’s important to just sort of point out that maybe you didn’t give permission for them to enter, but maybe your roommate did, maybe in your quad, right? Well, I mean, seeing a lot of, lot of that as well. If, I mean, if there’s an entrance point and any one person who has access to that entrance point for the room or the rooms gives permission you that’s, that’s permission. Now can, can an RA resident assistant or advisor give proxy permission? In for one of the occupants of one of the rooms.
Scott Cardani 5:02
I don’t think so. I think that. I think they would fail on that miserably. But again, your roommate could knock you out do all kinds of stuff and, you know,
Jackie Critzer 5:10
so or plant something in your stuff. And anyway, bad?
Scott Cardani 5:13
Yeah, you know, we’ve seen all kinds of things happen in our life. So, you know, if you have personal items that you don’t want people to get into, you make sure you have a lock box or some kind of locked device.
Jackie Critzer 5:23
So that brings up a really good point one of our kids who’s in the military, which we love, and thank you for serving, for all of you who have and do, but he brought up a point for our son, who’s in school now and in a dorm. He said, Okay, well, maybe they can come in and search. But what if he has, say, a locked Foot Locker? Can they search that? And of course, he’s in this position, well, you better not be able to search that. And I think he’s right. I think a locked Foot Locker, or anything locked is protected unless, what?
Speaker 1 5:55
unless they have a reasonable suspicion. So could they even Wouldn’t they have to have a warrant to get into a locked thing?
Scott Cardani 6:00
Absolutely, yeah, okay, that’s where. I’m sorry, you’re right. Um, they have to have the reasonable suspicion to get the warrant. I jumped ahead, but the warrant that I think that’s a warrant search. Okay? You’d have to have a warrant to search for sure. Thank you all. Have a great day. Like and Subscribe and continue if you have questions [email protected].
What To Do When… Outro 6:22
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