What is the effect of a rule requiring individualized suspicion on searches of a group, class, or entire student body?

A rule requiring individualized suspicion discourages searches of a group, class, or entire student body where the school official has reasonable suspicion that there has been a violation of the law but is unable to focus that suspicion on a particular individual. The constitutional rights of the many do not automatically disappear simply because there are reasonable grounds for violating the constitutional rights of one. "Our state and federal Constitutions were written precisely to outlaw ... unrestricted general sweeps and searches." (People v. Aldridge (1984) 35 Cal.3d 473, 480, 198 Cal.Rptr. 538, 674 P.2d 240.)