- A school resource officer in Jonesboro, Georgia discovers a loaded handgun while assisting educators in enforcing the code of conduct. The chief of police says simply, “Officer did what he was trained to do.”
- U.S. Department of Justice complaint brought by Legal Aid North Carolina against the Wake County, North Carolina school system alleges that school resource officers target black and disabled students.
- School and town leaders in Newtown, Connecticut have forged a partnership for a new school security model that will provide a combination of 18 armed and unarmed security guards for the seven district schools. New SROs in Milford, Connecticut are being received positively by the community.
- The Indiana Supreme Court upheld the conviction of a high school principal for failing to comply with state law that requires school officials to immediately report instances of suspected child abuse occurring within their institutions to the Department of Child Services or law enforcement. The victimized student told the educator that she had been raped by a fellow student, and he did not notify the police or the Department of Child Services for four hours.