Safety Law News for 6/13/14

  • Middletown, Connecticut officials from the school district and the police department have signed a “Right Response” agreement that looks to allow for better discretion from administrators and school resource officers on how to handle behavioral problems.
  • Five sheriff’s deputies will continue to serve as school resource officers in Livingston Parish public schools following the Louisiana school board’s unanimous vote to renew a contract with the Sheriff’s Office.
  • For the second year in a row, Indiana policymakers have expressed strong support for grant funding to create new school resource officer positions or continue existing ones. The State has renewed or approved 141 grant applications totaling more than $4 million to employ school resource officers in schools.