Question

was the decision from the new jersey v. TLO 1985 still stand or was it reversed.

Answer 1

The Supreme Court’s decision in New Jersey v. T.L.O. (1985) has not been reversed and remains binding law. T.L.O. established that public‑school searches are governed by the Fourth Amendment’s “reasonableness” standard: school officials do not need a warrant or probable cause, but a search must be justified at its inception and reasonably related in scope to the circumstances (i.e., based on reasonable suspicion).

Subsequent Supreme Court decisions have refined how T.L.O. is applied (but have not overruled it), for example:
- Vernonia School Dist. v. Acton (1995) — upheld suspicionless drug testing of student athletes.
- Board of Education v. Earls (2002) — extended drug testing to students in extracurricular activities.
- Safford Unified School Dist. v. Redding (2009) — applied T.L.O. principles to strike down a strip search of a 13‑year‑old as unreasonable; it limited the scope of permissible searches in some circumstances.
- Riley v. California (2014) — requires warrants for most cell‑phone searches by police (did not overrule T.L.O., but affects digital/privacy issues outside the school context).

Also note: some state constitutions/courts provide greater student privacy protections than the federal standard.

If you want, I can summarize the T.L.O. decision in more detail, explain how it would apply to searches of phones or lockers today, or provide case citations.