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Safety Law News for 7/23/14

by Bernie James • July 23, 2014

New York State Senator Patrick Gallivan, has taken direct action to put school resource officers in all schools in the state’s 59th Senate District. The New York budget has allocated nearly $2 million to implement a program developed by Gallivan that would allow schools to share a resource officer.

Thanks to the first ever Mississippi Community Oriented Policing Services grant, the Monroe County School District will receive $10,000 per school to help with the costs attached to school resource officers. The Mississippi Legislature approved a bill that allocated $5 million for the grant.

Pennsylvania policymakers have amended and expanded the state’s Safe School Act with Senate Bill 1194. The legislation, now law, will allow non-public schools to participate in the grant program for school resource officers.

Missouri Governor Jay Nixon vetoed legislation which would have allowed schools to designate certain teachers or administrators to carry concealed guns inside school buildings and classrooms.

Safety Law News for 7/18/14

by Bernie James • July 18, 2014

Champaign, Illinois announces its “proven track record” of keeping schools safe — with the statistics to prove it. The school superintendent is convinced and therefore, will recommend that the school board renew the SRO program.

In Marshfield, Massachusetts, a citizens group held a concert to raise awareness for more school resource officers in the local schools. The Citizens for Children’s Safety organization hosted its second Fireworks and Music Spectacular on July 3.

Arizona approved funding for 118 school safety resource officers on campuses across the state. The School Safety Program Oversight Committee agreed to spend nearly $12 million for the upcoming school year.

In Kentucky, Jefferson County Public Schools assistant principals, principals and school resource officers are undergoing training to ensure that recent revisions to the student code of conduct are understood and that proper practices are applied appropriately to all disciplinary cases.

Safety Law News for 7/11/14

by Bernie James • July 11, 2014

A state legislature joint committee in Arizona approved funding for 118 school safety resource officers on campuses around the state. The School Safety Program Oversight Committee agreed to spend nearly $12 million on the program for the upcoming school year.

In Georgia, a new law went into effect July 1 that allows school employees to be designated to have access to firearms.

School resource officers in Wilmington, North Carolina, make up the 22nd class of law enforcement officers that have graduated from the 40-hour program on dealing with a person with mental illness in a crisis. The crisis intervention training is taught by the Wilmington Chapter of the National Alliance of Mental Illness.

A Hawkins County, Tennessee program aimed at fifth-graders seeks to deter children from drugs, as well as help them deal with a family member’s addiction. School resource officers teach the class one day a week for 10 weeks to every fifth-grader in the county school system.

Safety Law News for 7/7/14

by Bernie James • July 7, 2014

The New York Court of Appeals has invalidated a cyberbullying law that punished any form of electronic communication – including any off-campus activities that “foreseeably create a risk of substantial disruption within the school environment, where it is foreseeable that the conduct, threats, intimidation or abuse might reach school property.”

A U.S. District Court in Texas upholds a school policy on cyberbullying which prohibits students from, “Send[ing], post[ing] or possess[ing] electronic messages that are abusive, obscene, sexually oriented, threatening, harassing, damaging to another’s reputation or illegal, including cyberbulling and ‘sexting’ either on or off school property, if the conduct causes a substantial disruption to the educational environment.”

The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld discipline against high school students who refused to change clothing bearing American flag. The court ruled that the educators’ actions were tailored to avert violence and focused on student safety due to ongoing racial tension and gang violence.

New data shows the Great Falls, Montana school resource officers program is having a positive effect in lowering the crime rate on campuses. The 2013-2014 data shows the calls and complaints investigated decreased and the number of responses police made dropped dramatically.

Safety Law News for 7/2/14

by Bernie James • July 2, 2014

Colorado officials report that marijuana is a significantly growing problem in schools, accounting for 32 percent of all expulsions.

The Jackson-Madison County, Tennessee school system will have a full complement of resource officers next school year thanks to an agreement between Madison County, the school system, and the city of Jackson.

The New York legislature has submitted a budget that provides funding to support school resource officer programs. The new program will place the trained law enforcement professional in schools on a shared basis with other school districts.

The San Mateo City Council approved an agreement between the city, the San Mateo-Foster City Elementary School District and the San Mateo Union High School District Monday night. Each entity will now share the cost to assign three police officers to cover the city’s three middle and high schools.

Safety Law News for 6/27/14

by Bernie James • June 27, 2014

In an opinion by the U.S. Supreme Court, the justices unanimously ruled that law enforcement officials cannot harvest the contents of a cell phone under the “search incident to arrest” exception to the warrant requirement of the Fourth Amendment.

Statistics on the effectiveness of school resource officers in Charleston County, South Carolina schools elementary schools show a decline in incidents and a sharp decline in referrals to the juvenile justice system. Most students involved in incidents were neither arrested nor charged.

The Arlington, Texas school board unanimously voted to approve the Police Lunch Pilot Program. Under the program, the school district will provide free lunch on all district campuses for uniformed police officers. The objective is to create engagement between students and officers and provide an extra level of security.

The Board of Commissioners of Jackson County, North Carolina denied a request by school officials and law enforcement to apply for a federal government grant for more school resource officers.

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