MOJAVE SCHOOLS TO USE DOGS.Byline: Karen Maeshiro Daily News Staff Writer Not one student has been expelled this year from the Mojave Unified School District A unified school district is a school district which includes both primary school (kindergarten through middle school or junior high) and high school (grades 9-12). In Illinois, these districts are called unit school districts. for possession of drug paraphernalia drug paraphernalia Controlled paraphernalia Substance abuse As defined in a regulatory context, DP is a hypodermic syringe, needle, metal or plastic (snorting) tube, or other instrument or implement or combination adapted for the administration of controlled or marijuana, down from six expulsions last year. But because they aren't sure whether the decline is good news or a sign that students are getting better at hiding things, district officials plan to bring in law-enforcement dogs to sniff schools and grounds for drugs. ``Last year, we had five or six cases of marijuana. This year we had none. We kind of figured they haven't stopped using it,'' said board member Annette Edblad. ``We've done this once in the past. It's always good to keep people on their toes and let them know we care about them.'' Superintendent Wallace McCormick said the district will use dogs from either the Kern Kern, river, 155 mi (249 km) long, rising in the S Sierra Nevada Mts., E Calif., and flowing south, then southwest to a reservoir in the extreme southern part of the San Joaquin valley. The river has Isabella Dam as its chief facility. County Sheriff's Department or the California City Police Department in surprise visits. Drug-sniffing dogs are allowed on campuses under a policy approved last December by the board, McCormick said. He reminded trustees of the policy at the board meeting last week. ``I brought it up so the board would not be surprised if drug dogs were used on any of our campuses,'' McCormick said. ``We want to let people know we have this right, and I'm going to exercise it. It's just a matter of when.'' McCormick said the searches generally will be limited to common areas of district property, such as student lockers. ``The policy does not allow us to line up kids and have the dogs sniff them,'' he said. The Antelope Valley Union High School District The Antelope Valley Union High School District (A.V.U.H.S.D.) is located in the Antelope Valley area of California, in northern Los Angeles County. The district includes eight public high schools, one trade school, and two continuation high schools in the cities of Palmdale has used drug-sniffing dogs on several occasions over the past five years, said Robert Fields, director of security at Antelope Valley High School Antelope Valley High School is located in Lancaster, California and is part of the Antelope Valley Union High School District. It was founded in 1912[1]. It is located in the Mojave Desert. . ``It's very effective with deterrence deterrence Military strategy whereby one power uses the threat of reprisal to preclude an attack from an adversary. The term largely refers to the basic strategy of the nuclear powers and the major alliance systems. . We've caught some people with some contraband contraband, in international law, goods necessary or useful in the prosecution of war that a belligerent may lawfully seize from a neutral who is attempting to deliver them to the enemy. ,'' including small amounts of marijuana in students' school bags, Fields said. Edblad said one search about three years ago by a Kern County Sheriff's Department dog did not turn up contraband. McCormick said that a California City police dog, while in training late last year at California City Middle School, detected something in a student locker. Inside was an alligator alligator, large aquatic reptile of the genus Alligator, in the same order as the crocodile. There are two species—a large type found in the S United States and a small type found in E China. Alligators differ from crocodiles in several ways. clip - a small clamp of the type sometimes used for holding a marijuana cigarette. It could not be proved that the clamp had ever been used. ``Because we didn't have the policy in place, we couldn't use it for disciplinary purposes,'' McCormick said. |
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