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Safety Law News for 10/29/14

by Bernie James • October 29, 2014

The Missouri legislature voted to override Gov. Nixon’s veto of a law that would allow school districts to designate teachers or administrators to have guns in school as school safety officers. But school administrators and superintendents are refusing to allow their teachers to carry guns.

In Florida, the Manatee County School Board has hired 32 armed officers from a private security company to protect the schools. The response of the Palmetto Police Department was to provide one school resource officer to an elementary school for the 2014-15 year free of charge.

Greenville, North Carolina police officers have started to volunteer their time in local schools to make sure that all schools in the city are covered.

Colorado law allows for school campus security personnel to be armed. They have no legal authority to arrest someone, but they can make a citizen’s arrest and detain someone suspected of a crime. The Colorado Springs School District gives security guards the option to decide whether or not to be armed.

Safety Law News for 10/23/14

by Bernie James • October 23, 2014

Rutherford County, Tennessee School Resource Officers are teaching the DRIVE Course to students in both the classroom and on the road. DRIVE stands for the Defense Response Improving Vehicle Education program.

In Florida, the Lee County School District has added 10 school resource officers to be shared between the 44 elementary schools.

The Missouri legislature has voted to override the veto of the Governor to enact a law that arms teachers in schools. The law requires the Department of Public Safety to develop a training program to allow teachers and administrators to become “school protection officers” who can have concealed weapons in schools.

The San Diego Unified School District has acquired a 14-ton armored vehicle it plans to use as a search and rescue vehicle. The US Marine Corps trained school resource officers on how to drive and use the M-RAP.

Safety Law News for 10/17/14

by Bernie James • October 17, 2014

The Crime Stoppers Tips Hotline will be taking over the administrative functions of a school safety notification program in Northland, Missouri schools. The new program allows students from the Northland schools to anonymously text tips to law enforcement.

New York Congressman, Tom Reed is introducing legislation that will reauthorize the COPS (Community Oriented Policing Services) program on a long-term, five-year basis (for Fiscal Years 2015-2019) with prioritization for law enforcement to apply for School Resource Officer grants.

In New Jersey, the Washington Township school district will begin using special law enforcement officers (SLEO) to expand the school safety program into the middle and elementary schools.

The West Chester, Ohio Police Department officers have created a YouTube video to show to elementary school students to highlight “Stranger Danger.” The video given students various scenarios the children may encounter and how to handle them, including hitting an adult to escape abduction.

Safety Law News for 10/6/14

by Bernie James • October 6, 2014

There are broad variations of reform on the roles of school resource officers in America. Policy makers are looking for solutions that vary with the unique local issues in each jurisdiction.

In Colorado, school resource officers, counselors, nurses, staff and officials with school safety and disciplinary programs are reporting an increase in marijuana-related incidents in middle and high schools.

After threats are made on an app called “street chat,” school resource officers were put back at a Unicoi County, Tennessee High School despite funding shortages.

School resource officers are being utilized as an important resource for students during October as National Anti-Bullying Awareness Month.

Safety Law News for 9/26/14

by Bernie James • September 26, 2014

In Omaha, Nebraska, associate school resource officers are part-time employees who are retired from the police force. They work as sworn officers in public schools, but now they’re seeing their hours slashed because of provisions of the federal Affordable Health Care Act.

The school resource officer program in New Hanover County, North Carolina has expanded to 39 school resource officers inside the public schools.

Every public middle and high school in North Carolina has a school resource officer. As a new school year begins, North Carolina officials are encouraging parents and students to get to know their school resource officer.

The role of school resource officers in Wausau, Wisconsin schools is changing as their numbers increase.

Officials in Marshall, Alabama aim to have full-time officers at each of Marshall County’s schools.

Safety Law News for 9/3/14

by Bernie James • September 3, 2014

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, Pennsylvania police officer was properly trained to use a Taser and to be a school resource officer when he shot a 14-year-old girl in the groin with a stun gun.

South Bend, Indiana officials begin assessing and correcting problems with the practice of school police issuing citations to students for fighting and other offenses.

The Post Falls, Idaho school district and police department have been awarded a grant from the Idaho Juvenile Justice Commission to launch a one-year pilot teen court program. The court will feature teen peers that will serve on a six-member jury and hear cases involving minor in possession of tobacco or alcohol, curfew violations and runaways.

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