Pubdate: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 Source: Calgary Herald (CN AB) - -4d8b-99f9-832655facbaa Copyright: 2004 Calgary Herald Contact: http://www.canada.com/calgary/calgaryherald/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/66 Author: CanWest News Services SCHOOL BOARD JUST SAYS NO TO DRUG-SNIFFING DOGS Drug-sniffing dogs won't be spot-checking Calgary schools any time soon, the public board says. A suggestion by Learning Minister Lyle Oberg to consider funding police dogs to regularly search for illegal drugs in schools, as a St. Albert school and RCMP detachment are doing, is not being considered in Calgary. "We would need just cause to use the K-9 service to have belief that a student had an illegal substance in their possession or in their locker," said Calgary Board of Education spokesman Graham White, adding the board has its own search procedures and the large public high schools would be hard to search on a regular basis. "We haven't considered it and it's not practical for us." - --- MAP posted-by: Josh