- The Police Commission and Board of Education for Weston, Connecticut are working on the terms of a memorandum of understanding as they move forward with their plans to hire a school resource officer (SRO).
- The City-School Liaison Committee of Evanston, Illinois is debating the wisdom of extending the gun-free, gang-free “safe schools zone” across the street to the public sidewalks. Under the proposal, school personnel would then have the authority to tell people previously identified as troublemakers to move on or face stronger actions.
- The school safety teams in Wayne, New Jersey have committed to participating in Rutgers University’s Bullying Prevention Institute, a yearlong program that helps districts develop a custom bullying prevention plan.
- Akron, Ohio schools and police debate their concerns over ALICE, (Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter and Evacuate). The curriculum, for which police officers are trained and certified, has a reputation for advocating violence on a would-be attacker.
- School board trustees from the Newport-Mesa, California Unified schools unanimously vote to utilize detection dogs in response to an increasing youth drug problem in the community.