— In New York, the Syracuse City School District is discussing police reform. Police Chief Kenton Buckner has said he’d like to remove police from schools. Mayor Ben Walsh is open to the idea. — In Colorado, officials in the…
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Safety Law News for June 19, 2020
— In Alaska, the superintendent of the Anchorage School District plans to maintain its school resource officer program. School officials believe that the police officers develop a professional but human connection with both the students and staff, connections which are…
Safety Law News for June 1st, 2020
— In Florida, the District Court of Appeal of Florida held that parents of a student killed in the campus shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School could not sue the shooter’s mental health provider for negligence. The court ruled…
Safety Law News for April 20, 2020
• In Washington State, the Court of Appeals of Washington refused to dismiss a lawsuit brought by parents of a student who was killed during a field trip consisting of a teacher taking his class on a short walk alongside…
Safety Law News for April 3, 2020
• In Ohio, the Court of Appeals of Ohio held that school officials in the Madison Local School District did not have the authority to arm employees with firearms based on a policy that requires only “24 hours of active…
Safety Law News for February 10, 2020
• In New York, the Lockport City School District is installing facial recognition technology to monitor who’s on the campuses of its schools. Lockport school officials believe that, “if the technology had been in place at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High…
Safety Law News for January 17, 2020
• In New York, the Schenectady City School District is struggling to implement its restorative justice school discipline policies. The new policies aim to handle incidents with constructive rather than punitive measures. The tide of parental concerns about student safety…
Safety Law News for November 1, 2019
• In Kentucky, the Jefferson County Board of Education will vote soon on a proposal that would eliminate the school resource officer program, replacing it with an in-house security team consisting of 48 officers. The new officers would report directly…
Safety Law News for September 12, 2019
• In New York, the New York Commissioner of Education is implementing a new policy that is designed to prevent school resource officers from detaining or questioning students for the purpose of determining their immigration status. • In Illinois, all…
Safety Law News for August 9, 2019
• In Kentucky, the Jefferson County Public School Board canceled its school resource officer program by declining by approve contracts with its local law enforcement agencies. The decision will result in the school district having just nine sworn law enforcement officers…