Safety Law News for March 24, 2017

by Bernie James • March 24, 2017 • Comments Off

In Minnesota, Ramsey County officials continue to wrestle with its efforts to implement a restorative justice policy in the schools. A task force convened to study school safety and issued a report with two conflicting trends. Students of color continue to be disciplined in disproportionate numbers. Student-on-staff violence has doubled in just one year – between 2014 and 2015.

In South Carolina, Horry County officials say they want to make the School Board pay more for school resource officers. Right now, the county and the school board split the cost of putting officers in the schools – each entity paying an equal 50% of the school resource officer’s salary. The County now wants the school board to foot 90% of the bill.

In Washington, the Spokane Public Schools Board approved a campus safety policy that creates stricter use-of-force guidelines and requires quarterly data reporting. The new use-of-force policy would limit when and how school resource officers can make arrests and put an emphasis on deescalating situations before making an arrest. In the new policy parents and students have 10 business days to file a complaint against a school resource officer.

In Alabama, the School Security and Student Safety Task Force released its final report and findings, which included a number of recommendations. One recommendation was to amend Section 12-15-217, Code of Alabama 1975, to provide for the sharing of information between juvenile probation officers and school districts relating to delinquent students that may pose a threat to safety.

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