EUREKA SPRINGS -- As a result of a parent's appeal of her daughter's school suspension for possession of marijuana, the Eureka Springs School Board will review its policies on drug testing and random searches, Superintendent Wayne Carr said at the April 15 monthly meeting.

Parent Kris Burks said her daughter's car received a "hit" from a county sheriff's drug dog on April 6 when her daughter went on a field trip with the Future Business Leaders of America and left her car in the high school parking lot.

Officers from the Eureka Springs Police Department were also present, and the dog hit on two more vehicles.

Burks was told "a few marijuana seeds, a stem and an empty plastic bag" were found in her daughter's car.

She said her daughter and the other two students were immediately suspended for 10 days, with no drug tests.

Burks appealed to Carr and explained her daughter had purchased the car and never cleaned it out, nor had she been locking her car until now.

Carr reduced the suspension to three days.

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