Safety Law News for 10/7/13

  •  The Etowah County, Alabama School Resource Officer and the Director of Student Services are teaching school administrators to flee, barricade or defend themselves — in that order — when faced with a school intruder who is intent on causing great harm. The program is called “Run, Hide, Fight.”
  •  The New London, Connecticut schools superintendent is challenging a study that shows student arrests in New London were four times the statewide rate in 2011.   Superintendent Nicholas Fischer said the numbers are simply not credible. He said a school database that tracks student arrests shows just 15 arrests during the year covered by the study.

Safety Law News for 10/2/13

  • Police in Gainesville, Georgia, are asking the school board to accept a proposal that would allow school resource officers to store assault rifles in the schools while on duty.
  •  In Georgia, the Murray County Schools have partnered with the Murray County Sheriff’s Office to provide its students and staff with school resource officers, all of whom are certified deputies or police, in all of its elementary, middle and high schools. 

Safety Law News for 9/30/13

  • The North Carolina Department of Public Safety has released its 2013 report on safe schools written by the DPS Center for Safer Schools.

Safety Law News for 9/25/13

  •  Montgomery County, Maryland schools appropriated $1.67 million in county bonds for security cameras in the schools.  In total, hallway cameras have been installed in 132 elementary schools, interior cameras at 37 middle schools and 18 high schools, and exterior cameras at 38 middle schools and 25 high schools.
  •  Deputies with the Burleigh County, North Dakota Sheriff’s Department now ride on school buses as part of the “Deputy on a Bus” program.

Safety Law News for 9/23/13

  •  All Randolph County, Alabama schools get school resource officers after a last minute meeting by the Randolph County Board of Education.
  •  The Steuben County, New York Sheriff’s office has announced the return of the School Resource Officers Program after the program was cut after the 2010-2011 academic year because of a lack of state funding.  Six districts in the county have picked up retired officers for $25,000 a year.

Safety Law News for 9/19/13

  • Gadsden City, Alabama Schools will have school resource officers on every campus because of a long-term contract with the police department to use off-duty police officers.
  • School officials in Oak Ridge, Tennessee have signed an interagency agreement that provides clear roles for guaranteeing school safety.  The agreement was reached in response to community concerns that school conditions had deteriorated to the extent that some children were afraid to go to school.
  • After spending the summer considering whether to hire armed guards to watch over some Costa Mesa, California schools, the school district has decided to stick with police officers for their school resource officer program.