Month: March 2013

Safety Law News for 3/27/13

• Brookfield, Connecticut officials have heard the outcry of families desperate to ensure that their children and educators are safe in their schools and increased the budget so the police department can train and assign officers to the high school…

Safety Law News for 3/22/13

• The Phoenix, Arizona mayor introduces a school safety program that would add additional SROs at a cost of less than 50 percent of the traditional school resource officer, and would maintain the same duties. • The Snohomish County, Washington…

Safety Law News for 3/20/13

• The East Contra Costa, California  school district want to keep its school resource officer program to avoid isolation and long emergency response times of at least 10 minutes. • The Ohio legislature introduces Senate Bill 74, which would allow…

Safety Law News for 3/15/13

• Brimfield Township, Ohio school resource officers are proactively taking steps to keep students safer and calmer in an emergency by spearheading a campaign called “Go Bucket.” • Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot crossed political party lines to announce backing legislation…

Safety Law News for 3/12/13

• The Oklahoma House of Representatives approve House Bill 1062, that authorizes teachers who take a 120-hour training course to bring handguns into their classrooms. • The Alabama Senate has approved legislation that reverses a 2005 law and a policy…

Safety Law News for 3/8/13

A survey by the North Carolina School Boards Association reveals that 82.7 percent of North Carolina high schools and 74.7 percent of middle schools have a school resource officer, while only 3.6 percent of elementary schools do.  Highland, New York…

Safety Law News for 3/6/13

The South Dakota legislature sent a bill to Gov. Dennis Daugaard that would allow school boards to place armed sentinels in their public schools as a safety measure if they choose. South Carolina policymakers debate legislation that would provide the…