The San Diego Unified School District is changing how it keeps records on student searches after a parent found out his son’s school wasn’t following the district’s own policy. NBC 7 Investigates discovered the district didn’t know how its more-than 200 schools documented searches, or whether they tracked them at all.

With that lack of record-keeping for all searches, parents like Michael Stewart wondered if they were conducted legally.

Stewart reached out to NBC 7 Investigates after the principal searched his son last spring at Patrick Henry High School, which is in the San Carlos area.

“I just didn’t feel good about this,” Stewart told us. “He’d never been disciplined for anything formally. Never any principal-level counseling. He was what I’d consider a good school citizen. ...So it

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