In Minnesota, officials in the Savage Public Schools are revising their school safety plan. The new plan eliminates all officers with a new administrative position called the dean of students. The superintendent believes “ultimately, the focus of a School Resource…
Month: April 2017
Safety Law News for April 18, 2017
In Massachusetts, the Springfield Public Schools have combined restorative justice principles with the “triad” concept of school-based policing to reduce arrests and suspensions. Arrests have declined 70 percent over a five-year period. Suspensions — in school and out of school…
Safety Law News for April 13, 2017
In North Carolina, House Bill 612 would authorize local schools boards to offer a comprehensive firearm education course as a high school elective. The course would be developed by the State Board of Education and would incorporate gun safety education…
Safety Law News for April 10, 2017
In Tennessee, the director of Murfreesboro City Schools has asked the Murfreesboro City Council to expand the school resource officer program. Dr. Linda Gilbert says, “we would love to have one in every school…we have found them absolutely invaluable to…
Safety Law News for April 5, 2017
In North Carolina, the Durham school board is considering changing rules for sharing information with law enforcement officers to avoid deportations of students who may be in the country illegally. In Maryland, the sexual assault in Rockville of a 14-year-old…