- In Colorado, one year after the legalization of marijuana, the number of marijuana-related arrests in Denver public schools has grown by 6 percent.
- Washington, D.C.-area public school districts utilize more than 30,000 surveillance cameras inside school buildings to monitor school safety.
- McDowell County, North Carolina school resource officers have created a new program to educate elementary school students on how to handle the problems that plague youngsters in today’s society. The program is called TIM – Teaching students lifesaving lessons, Improving their quality of life, and Maintaining a safe learning environment.
- In Virginia, Isle of Wight County officials are in disagreement over the rules for school resource officers wearing body-mounted cameras on school grounds. School officials wrongly interpret the use of cameras to implicate the federal privacy law FERPA. The USDOE has repeatedly made it clear that images of students captured on video devices that are maintained by the school’s law enforcement unit are not considered education records under FERPA.