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Safety Law News for 9/13/13

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  • The Benton-Carroll-Salem, Ohio School District is implementing the ALICE program.  The ALICE program — the acronym stands for Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, Evacuate— is a revamped perspective on how students should react if a shooter or dangerous intruder enters their school building.
  • Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller announces the September 30 deadline for school safety grants.  $10 million dollars is available to state public schools for employing a school resource officer or conducting a threat assessment, or purchasing equipment.
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Safety Law News for 9/10/13

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  • School resource officers from the Cary, N.C., Police Department spent the summer conducting “Camp Confidence,” a summer camp with the goal of building relationships with 20 to 30 young men who are getting ready to enter high school.
  • In Connecticut, the School Safety Infrastructure Council reports its findings on how to design safe schools without creating a prison-like atmosphere and statewide safety standards for individual school districts.
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Safety Law News for 9/5/13

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  • The Davidson County, North Carolina School Board agreed to clarify the interagency agreement policy on weapons.  Under the new policy, school resource officers will immediately be contacted by principals when they have discovered any of the weapons or weapon-like items.
  • The Florida Department of Juvenile Justice is encouraging the expansion of a different kind of juvenile justice policy that imposes civil citations instead of criminal charges for some misdemeanors.  Under this new policy school-based arrests have dropped by 28 percent and first-time misdemeanor arrests dropped by 29 percent statewide in the past two years from diverting juveniles charged with minor offenses away from juvenile detention. The focus instead is on treatment, mentoring, community programs and more family involvement.
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Safety Law News for 9/3/13

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  • Educators and law enforcement in Arkansas are working on a compromise to the controversy over arming teachers and staff.  Under the proposal, only administrators would be armed after receiving sufficient training to become part of the reserve unit for the sheriff’s office.
  • Schools begin in Brooks County, Georgia without school resource officers.  Over the summer, the School Board voted to cut them out in order to save the schools 50,000 dollars a year.
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Safety Law News for 8/29/13

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  •  Marfa, Texas Independent School District eliminates policy of corporal punishment.  Superintendent Andrew Peters told the board of trustees that other tools at the school’s disposal, such as the school resource officer, courts, and in-school suspension, were more effective.
  •  This summer the San Joaquin County, CA Sherriff’s Department ran the Police Services’ Youth Police Academy for students from the 5th through 8th grade to show them what goes into emergency services and build relationships with the community.
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Safety Law News for 8/23/13

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  • The Hazleton, Pennsylvania Board of Education reversed its previous decision to hire unarmed security guards to monitor the metal detectors and directed administrators to hire armed school resource officers for its eight elementary-middle schools.
  •  The Okaloosa County, Florida School Board placed school resource officers in all schools just before Christmas break last year in wake of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.  Now the educators are debating whether they want to cover the cost of keeping deputies in all the schools in the coming school year.
  •  Four Chester County, South Carolina sheriff deputies are paid to work at schools in Chester, Great Falls and Lewisville.   The request by the sheriff for money from the County Council to hire seven more school resource officers was denied, despite the school district’s pledge to pay half the cost.