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Safety Law News for 3/11/14

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  • The Colorado House Judiciary Committee defeated HB 14-1157 on a 7 – 4 party line vote.  The legislation would authorize school boards to develop policies that would allow employees to carry a concealed weapons on school grounds, if they hold a valid permit.
  •  The Florida legislature has introduced House Bill 753 that will require that school boards have policies to deal with shooters and hostage situations on campus.  The proposal also authorizes local educators to appoint “school safety officers” with military or law enforcement training to carry guns on campus.
  •  Brocton, New York Superintendent John Hertlein said in his 43 years in education the single most important thing was having a resource officer on hand.
  •  School resource officers could start carrying stun guns at schools in Glynn County, Georgia as soon as this fall.
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Safety Law News for 3/4/14

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  •  The School Board of Highlands County, Florida is updating its bullying and harassment policy to include the term “cyberbullying” along with a detailed definition covering bullying through the use of technology such as communication devices, computers and social media.
  •  Brocton, New York Superintendent John Hertlein said in his 43 years in education the single most important thing was having a resource officer on hand.
  •  School resource officers could start carrying stun guns at schools in Glynn County, Georgia as soon as this fall.
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Safety Law News for 2/25/14

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  • The U.S. Justice Department has released “Juvenile Arrests 2011.” The report analyzes data in the United States to characterize the extent and nature of juvenile crime. Among other findings, the bulletin reports that juvenile arrests in 2011 decreased 11 percent and juvenile violent crime arrests decreased 10 percent over 2010.
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Safety Law News for 2/20/14

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  •  The introduction in the Arizona legislature of House Bill 2412, which would legalize armed teachers in schools, is not getting much support from local school administrators.
  •  Off-duty police officers in Stow, Ohio are given authority to carry firearms to provide an extra layer of security in public schools at no additional cost.
  •  Supreme Court of Nebraska rules that a high school student’s driving to school and parking off school grounds was not a “school-sponsored event” and therefore, a search by assistant principal of student’s truck parked across street from high school was unreasonable under Fourth Amendment. [A.P. v Millard Public Schools].
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Safety Law News for 2/17/14

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  • The Argyle Independent School District in Texas, is implementing the new School Marshal program created as a result of the passage of House Bill 1009 Protection of Texas Children Act. The program certifies school marshals and expands law enforcement in schools.
  •  The Pinellas County, Florida School Board has entered into an agreement with the county sheriff’s office on new school discipline rules.  Under the new rules students who violate the student conduct code will be punished by the school administration and minor crimes will not result in an arrest if it’s the student’s first incident.
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Safety Law News for 2/13/14

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  • Court upholds discipline of a student who broadcasted a string of increasingly violent and threatening instant messages from home to his friends bragging about his weapons, threatening to shoot specific classmates, intimating that he would “take out” other people at a school shooting on a specific date.  [Wynar v. Douglas County School Dist.]