The Fourth Amendment and Article 14 Do Not Apply in Private Schools. 1. The Fourth Amendment prohibits the police from making a warrantless and non-consensual entry into the home of a suspect to make a routine felony arrest.Amendment did not protect a person's unreasonable or ille- gitimate expectations of privacy. The Court will only reach the second issue in the case if it first determines that Scott did violate Harris's Fourth Amendment rights. Avoiding the Fourth Amendment. School officials do not need to have probable cause or obtain a search warrant. The 4th amendment is a protection against this sort of violation. It is consistent with the history of the Fourth Amendment and with the structure of protection in the closely related area of constitutional property. That a teach or school official may be found to have detained a student in a future case. Justice Souter held that the search in this case (requiring Savana to pull out her.