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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.

Safety Law News for 8/26/14

by Bernie James • August 26, 2014

In North Carolina, two Charlotte Mecklenburg schools that had School Resource Officers (SRO’s) last year will not have them this year. Those officers will be transferred to schools that are more troubled.

School resource officers in Henry County, Tennessee appear to be providing more counseling to students instead of arrests.

The Santa Cruz, Arizona County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved funding for 3.5 school resource officer positions at local schools.

In Oklahoma, the Nicoma Park Schools get their first school resource officer after the school district and police department agreed to share the costs for the new position.

Safety Law News for 8/22/14

by Bernie James • August 22, 2014

The percentage of American parents who fear for their child’s physical safety in school is at 27% according to a new Gallup Poll on school safety.

In Hillsborough County, Florida, the school district has implemented a new school security plan. Under the plan, school officials are placing 20 new community service officers in the elementary schools. The officers work for the district and oversee four to six schools each. The officers do not have arrest powers like school resource officers.

The commitment to providing school safety is at issue in Sarasota County, Florida. The school board is debating how to increase school safety after canceling its school resource officer program for budget reasons.

The Cattaraugus, New York Village Board voted at its last meeting to abolish its police department, with the intention of dedicating those funds to providing a student resource officer (SRO) in Cattaraugus-Little Valley Central School.

Safety Law News for 8/18/14

by Bernie James • August 18, 2014

A staffing shortage of 18 officers at the Fargo, North Dakota Police Department means school resource officers are going to be pulled out of schools and placed back into squad cars. The Police Department and Fargo Public Schools are collaborating on the issue to find a feasible solution.

In California, the school board for the Compton Unified School District has implemented a policy that allows campus police who pass an internal selection process to buy AR-15 rifles and carry them in their patrol car trunks while on duty.

The City of Meriden, Connecticut will eliminate its long-running Drug Abuse Resistance Education program for fifth-graders and replace it with a police officer for elementary schools.

The City of Norman, Oklahoma and Norman Public Schools are implementing a school resource officer program. There will be 13 officers. Two will be at each high school, one will be at each middle school and five will rotate between elementary schools.

Safety Law News for 8/14/14

by Bernie James • August 14, 2014

Students in Jackson County, Alabama return to classes without a School Resource Officer Program. Officials are working hard to bring deputies back to the schools after grant funds dried up and the money ran out.

The Santa Maria, California Police Department is adding three school resource officers to elementary and high schools in the city. Budget cuts caused those positions to be eliminated in years past, but now the officers are back full-time.

The Manatee County, Florida school district says safety is a top priority for the community. It has approved nearly $2 million to go toward hiring armed security guards at every elementary school.

In New Jersey, the Washington Township Board of Education has set student safety as a priority, and now it intends to add two school resource officers to work in the middle and elementary schools. Currently, only the high school has a full-time officer who is the only SRO in the district.

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