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Safety Law News for 2/7/14

by Bernie James • February 7, 2014

Scotland County, North Carolina officials have agreed to provide school resource officers at every elementary school in the district.

Municipal officials in Jackson, New Jersey have taken a step toward reinstating the school resource officer program after unanimously approving a resolution that paves the way for a shared services agreement with the Jackson School District.

The U.S. Justice Department has issued new guidance to educators on school discipline. The guidelines are aimed at ending the use of discipline that takes students out of school.

The Paterson, New Jersey school superintendent chose to discontinue the practice of having the retired officers have guns while working in the schools in the fall of 2012. But the district has reconsidered that decision after the Newtown tragedy.

Safety Law News for 2/4/14

by Bernie James • February 4, 2014

Wayne County, Michigan Sheriff Barry Virts would like to create a county-wide resource officer program because of the success of the previous program in building relationships with students and teaching classes.

The Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board has deactivated the certification of the Peoria Public School District’s police force. As a result, the school resource officers will not be able to exercise police powers.

Cyberbullying is now one of the biggest issues student resource officers deal with at all grade levels across Montana.

School resource officers in Mississippi are now being trained to be information liaisons with Mississippi Homeland Security. The purpose of the training is to equip SROs to assess and handle confidential data, and make sure it is shared with appropriate agencies statewide.

Safety Law News for 1/24/14

by Bernie James • January 24, 2014

Marijuana problems in Colorado schools increase with legalization. More students and younger kids are bringing marijuana to schools.

Officials in Kennebunk, Maine consider their school resource officers to be “more than a police presence in our schools.”

Indiana State Attorney General Greg Zoeller wants more funding for school resource officers.

Officials in Irvine, California and Fall River, Massachusetts are bucking the trend of reducing budgets and reducing the number of officers dedicated to serving schools. Irvine officials are adding an additional school resource officer this year to serve Irvine Unified School District’s middle schools. Fall River officials are adding ten new school resource officers.

Safety Law News for 1/16/14

by Bernie James • January 16, 2014

Topeka, Kansas police interrupt a plan by a 17-year old student to shoot two law enforcement officers and two administrators at Topeka West High School.

A Florida appellate court decision upholds the search of the book bag by a school official based upon an anonymous tip. The court ruled that the level of reliability required to justify a search is lower when the tip concerns possession by a student of a firearm in a public school classroom. [K.P. v. State].

In Texas, the passage of Senate Bill 393 that restricts school police officers from issuing Class C misdemeanors for fighting, trespassing and having drug paraphernalia is changing the role of school resource officer.

Indiana Supreme Court upholds use of Taser by school resource officer against student whose conviction for resisting law enforcement, as a Class A misdemeanor, and disorderly conduct, a Class B misdemeanor were upheld. [Walker v. State].

Safety Law News for 1/13/14

by Bernie James • January 13, 2014

A new national study released by Brown University reveals that large numbers of students are still being seriously hurt while on school grounds. Each year more than 90,000 school children suffer “intentional” injuries severe enough to land them in the emergency room.

Educators in western New York State share their views on collaborative school safety: “the school resource officer position … provide an important role in having our students realize and make a connection between law enforcement and life outside of school. They play many different roles in our middle/high school building, including a huge part of the educational piece.”

The Cumberland County, Tennessee Board of Education voted unanimously Thursday to move forward with a School Resource Officer program in its schools, in cooperation with the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Department.

The United States District Court in Tennessee has ruled that school officials may not regulate off-campus online speech by students when the student’s speech has no connection to the school whatever other than the fact that both the speaker and the targeted victim of the speech studied there. Nixon v. Hardin County Bd. of Education.

Safety Law News for 1/9/14

by Bernie James • January 9, 2014

The Gainesville, Georgia school board has approved a policy allowing some resource officers to carry long-range rifles in each of the city’s high schools and middle schools.

Berkeley County, South Carolina schools conduct audit of school safety after officials in Colorado says the school shooting that took place there last month could have been much worse if a school resource officer had not been able to approach the student about 80 seconds after the shooting began.

Herkimer County, New York students report feeling safe in school in a recent survey. School officials attribute the result to improved implementation of safety policies.

The United States District Court in Tennessee has ruled that school officials may not regulate off-campus online speech by students when the student’s speech has no connection to the school whatever other than the fact that both the speaker and the targeted victim of the speech studied there. Nixon v. Hardin County Bd. of Education.

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