Safety Law News for 5/16/13

•  The Miami Tribe of Miami, Oklahoma has generously donated funding of $50,000 for a School Resource Officer’s (SRO) salary to help patrol the nine public schools in the school district.

• The Indiana legislature amends its safe school proposal to remove the provisions that require a staff person in every school to carry a gun.

•  Knox County, Tennessee School Board approves budget that adds 58 additional school resource officers at each school and $3.9 million to implement a number of security enhancements, including the addition of video cameras, camera/buzzer systems, secure vestibules and keyless entry cards at every school.

•  A Windber, Pennsylvania research survey reveals that professionals and parents believe that schools are not doing enough to prevent violence.