Legal Question in Constitutional Law in Texas

Your dormitory room may be searched based on the contract your parents and or you signed before you were allocated a dorm room. If you are living on campus, you are subject to state and federal law as well as college rules and regulations. If the college is a state run facility, then you are certainly subject to state laws, rules and reuglations as well as federal laws. Infraction of those rules and regulations allows the College to expel you and to search the premises within the college grounds. Exigent circumstances may also give them the right to search immediately after or duirng the commission of a crime.

However, your person cannot be searched without a warrant. If you object to both the search or the seizure, then ask the College to serve you with a subpoena. Just remember, the District Attorney or the Sheriff can get a subpoena within a very short time. The criteria for obtain a search warrant is a showing of probable cause.