Tag: Taser

Safety Law News for September 26, 2019

In Iowa, the Iowa City Community School District School Board wants more input from people before putting forth a security plan that includes the deployment of school resource officers on campuses.  A letter from all the district’s high school and…

Safety Law News for May 10, 2018

In Missouri, a non-sworn security officer in the St. Louis County schools was arrested and charged with assault for violating school district policy when he used a Taser on an unarmed middle-school student.  School district policy of the Normandy Schools…

Safety Law News for 9/3/14

A growing number of cities in Connecticut are choosing to eliminate the once popular Drug Abuse Resistance Education Program, redirecting DARE funds into a full-time school resource officer. A federal judge has ruled a jury must decide whether an Allentown,…

Safety Law News for 2/13/14

Court upholds discipline of a student who broadcasted a string of increasingly violent and threatening instant messages from home to his friends bragging about his weapons, threatening to shoot specific classmates, intimating that he would “take out” other people at…