HANOVERTON — An administrator reading students’ text messages at United High School has riled some students and made one young woman accuse the school district of violating her constitutional rights.

Lindsay Buckley, 18, a senior at the school, has accused the school’s vice principal, Frank Baker, of seizing her cell phone as well as the cell phones of her younger sister and some of her friends and classmates, then reading through the text messages stored on those phones.

School rules prohibit having cell phones turned on during the school day, Superintendent Tom Davis noted, and if school officials catch students violating those rules, school rules dictate that officials are supposed to confiscate the cell phones until students’ parents can claim the phones.

“Each year, there’s some students that violate school policy,” Davis said, but it’s not a major problem. Many of the students whose phones are seized are either caught sending text messages duri