Safety Law News for 8/2/13

• The Steuben County, New York legislature voted unanimously to approve a plan that would put retired police officers in their public schools. have added security in their schools at a good bargain.

• The Pennsylvania Legislature has compromised on the details of state grants to help pay for school resource officers and emergency training and school violence prevention programs.

• An interagency agreement to renew for three years the school resource officer program was unanimously approved by the Norriton, Pennsylvania Board of Supervisors and the Norristown Area School Board.

• New Jersey Governor Chris Christie says school resource officers should not be in public schools.

• South Dakota’s new  “School Sentinel” law has been in effect for one month and local schools are now faced with deciding how to implement it. The law allows teachers in South Dakota to carry loaded firearms onto school grounds.

• New Haven, Connecticut’s Police Athletic League (P.A.L.) has merged with Yale’s Camp New Haven to host a free summer camp for area children.  The program has doubled in size to 150 spots this year.  Nine school resource officers, two Yale Police Department officers, 15 Youth@Work members, 15 Yale football team members and a handful of volunteers are helping with the program.