Safety Law News for 8/8/12

  • When Pennsylvania policymakers realized that school districts could not hire SROs, they changed state law to permit SRO hires. When “kids recognize and have a relationship with [SROs, this] deters them from hanging out with the wrong crowd and reminds them to concentrate on their school work,” said state representative Tom Rock, who authored the bill.
  • Random drug tests may end at New Jersey’s Hillsborough High, where educators are not convinced that the tests are reducing drug abuse.
  • Minnesota educators and police collaborated to make a Twitter account non-public. It contained explicit and derogatory statements about local high school students.