School Safety Law News for 4/18/12

  • California police and educators “don’t care to tolerate any kind of weapons on campus,” whether real or fake, and are reinforcing this message after a seventh grade girl brought a BB gun to school. She discussed using it to hurt herself and other students, as she faced a likely breakup with her boyfriend.
  • Law enforcement agencies, not educators, were behind the decision to place a 22-year-old undercover police officer in a California high school. Eight months later, the undercover officer’s drug probes led to student arrests.
  • A bullied Maryland student found her school’s response so lacking that she went online, writing that “[t]he cyber bullying has gotten to the point where the school will not take any action unless I kill myself.” Within twelve hours, the principal was inundated with emails from across the nation and had addressed the issue.