School Safety Law News for 4/27/12

  • As educators increasingly grapple with legal-but-dangerous synthetic marijuana use, a Florida school board has amended its code of conduct to outlaw Spice within 1,000 feet of school property.
  • Massachusetts students are upset by campus-wide discipline problems, particularly when it comes to smoking in bathrooms. Educators discuss their response.
  • ABC News profiles the California police officer who went undercover at a high school, leading to the drug-related arrests of 12 students.
  • Trained drug dogs are increasingly used by schools in the San Francisco Bay Area, even when the purpose is more deterrence than detection.