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inlawrev-25125	Chastain, Raelynn	Miranda in the Modern School: The Blurry Application of a Bright-Line Rule	2021	27	.pdf	application/pdf	11982	634	58	The Public Safety Exception When crafting new policies regarding school resource officers, the Indiana legislature and judiciary must remember that the primary goals of student interrogations are to maintain student safety and school discipline.180 So, Miranda’s key exception—public safety—still applies in schools in cases of imminent danger.181 When school officers face a pressing need to secure the safety of students, Miranda warnings may be bypassed.182 Determining which situations qualify under the public safety exception requires additional analysis. Anytime an Officer Questions Another bright-line option is to consider students presumptively in custody, signaling the requirement of a Miranda warning, whenever police question children in school.256 Or at minimum, the custody threshold should be lowered in school settings.257 This test is not meant to deter school resource officers from doing their jobs.258 In fact, the Indiana Supreme Court emphasized in B.A. that its decision does not mean that school resource officers must completely avoid placing students under custodial interrogation—students sometimes commit crimes that require investigation—but school officers must give Miranda warnings and follow Indiana’s juvenile waiver statute when conducting such interviews.259 Still, the Indiana Supreme Court may have been intentionally vague, potentially in an effort to give educators some leeway.260	cache/inlawrev-25125.pdf	txt/inlawrev-25125.txt