Month: November 2015

Safety Law News for November 24, 2015

New York City officials reached a settlement in a lawsuit brought by students who argued NYPD school resource officers used excessive and inappropriate force. The city will pay $54,000 to the four former students who brought the case. The New…

Safety Law News for November 20, 2015

In Rochester, New York, forty-one teachers have been assaulted since September. The year before that it was 13. The teachers are making an appeal before the Rochester City School District board to voice concerns about their safety, as well as…

Safety Law News for November 13, 2015

In South Carolina, state lawmakers and educators are considering mandatory School Resource Officer training. In Wyoming, the Teton County School District, is partnering with PublicSchoolWORKS to use its’ EmployeeSafe and StudentWatch management systems to report and track both positive and…

Safety Law News for November 10, 2015

In Virginia, the Bristol City Public School District plans to have SROs in every school by 2016. In Colorado, officials say that keeping drugs out of schools has become a real challenge. Alcohol, marijuana and prescriptions pills continue to be…

Safety Law News for November 3, 2015

In Maryland, Montgomery County becomes one of the first jurisdictions in the state to outfit school resource officers with body cameras. Nationally, the video of a school resource officer pulling a female student out of her desk at Spring Valley…