Month: January 2013

Safety Law News for 1/30/13

7,000 Michigan children complete the Attorney General’s Michigan Cyber Safety Initiative (CSI), a free Internet safety program for students in kindergarten through eighth grade.  Policymakers examine how the design of a school can play a role in school safety.  Connecticut…

Safety Law News for 1/28/13

• Four Tennessee counties rush to add school resource officers to elementary schools. • Idaho school district begin installing gun safes inside each of the high schools and middle schools. School resource officers would keep semi-automatic rifles inside the safes…

Safety Law News for 1/25/13

• Going against a recommendation by schools Superintendent, a Maryland Board of Education votes to use state funding to pay for school security personnel and equipment, along with mental health services. • Tennessee teachers Union does not want teachers armed…

Safety Law News for 1/22/13

• Parents in Minnesota meet to discuss how to get the School District to consider upgrades to security in the public schools. • Pennsylvania legislature introduces School Resource Officer Bill 196, which calls for funding for school resource officers in…

Safety Law News for 1/16/13

• The Lafayette, Louisiana school system and Police Department have made adjustments to the use of school resource officers following the rape of a student on campus. • Local New Hampshire citizens prepare to vote to bring back school resource…

Safety Law News for 1/14/13

•  Mississippi Lt. Governor is asking lawmakers to OK $7.5 million to create a grant program to increase the number of law enforcement officers in public schools across the state. •  The Indiana Attorney General is putting his support behind…