• In North Carolina, the North Carolina Supreme Court ruled that a student was properly adjudicated for disorderly conduct after throwing a chair toward another student in the school’s cafeteria, running away, refusing to cooperate with the school resource officer,…
Author: Bernie James
Safety Law News for October 10, 2019
• In Florida, the United State District Court ruled that a 14-year old female student, who reported bullying and sexual harassment, sufficiently stated a Title IX claim. The student alleged that school officials were deliberately indifferent by failing to put…
Safety Law News for October 7, 2019
• In Maine, a new study by the University of Southern Maine examines the role of school resource officers in Maine and concludes that policing alone does not reduce violence or necessarily improve school safety. More specifically, the report finds…
Safety Law News for October 1st, 2019
• In Ohio, the United States District Court held that classroom video of a student without prior parental consent does not implicate the right to privacy under the Fourth Amendment. The court reasoned that a student’s reasonable expectation of privacy…
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 September 24, 2019
• In Maine, state officials enacted a law banning vaping or possession of an e-cigarette on school grounds, joining Montana, Oklahoma and Virginia. And in the past three years, at least 18 states have raised the legal smoking age for…
Safety Law News for September 17, 2019
• In South Carolina, a Department of Education report shows that 1,066 guns, knives and other weapons were confiscated in statewide school districts in the 2018-2019 school year. That total is less than the previous three years. State officials believe…
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 September 10, 2019
• In Alabama, school officials at Wilson High School in Florence, Alabama are removing the doors to stalls in the student bathroom to discourage students from vaping. The decision to take down the doors comes after a male student was…
Safety Law News for September 5, 2019.
In Alabama, a non-partisan research institute is calling for specialized and fully funded training for all school resource officers in the state. Its Report, “Hall Monitors with Handcuffs,” found that arrests, referrals to the juvenile justice system, and school climate…