People v. William V.

William V. appeals from a judgment of the juvenile court making him a ward of the court for unlawfully possessing a knife on school *1467 grounds. He asserts that the court should have suppressed the knife because it was seized in an unlawful search. William argues that the specially assigned police officer who conducted the search was not a school official and thus was required to have probable cause, rather than merely a reasonable suspicion, to conduct the search. In the published portion of the opinion, we hold that the police officer, who was on a two-year assignment as a resource officer at William’s school, was a school official for purposes of the Fourth Amendment, and that his search was justified by the reasonable suspicion that William was engaging in conduct that violated school rules.

William also challenges the gang-related conditions of his probation. In the unpublished portion of the opinion, we conclude the probation conditions are valid. Accordingly, we affirm.

Factual and Procedural Background

Around 9:15 a.m. on September 6, 2001, Officer David Johannes of the Hayward Police Department entered the Hayward High School campus in full uniform. At that…