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Safety Law News for 10/22/13

by Bernie James • October 22, 2013

Officials in Buncombe County, North Carolina high schools have filed 242 incident reports dating back to last school year. Reports of violent crimes — such as simple assaults, fighting and certain disorderly conduct charges — account for 25 percent of the incidents. Reports of thefts make up another 20 percent.

The Rowan-Salisbury, North Carolina Board of Education voted 6-0 to bring resource officers back to all Rowan County middle schools. Discipline problems are on the rise, with a quarter of the incidents the system reports to the state coming from middle schools last year.

Alpharetta, Georgia Police and the Fulton County School System have entered into a unique partnership that establishes a police substation inside the school building during school hours.

The Kansas City, Kansas, School District has voted to enhance their security by starting its own police department.

The Milwaukee, Wisconsin Public Schools and the police department are implementing an interagency agreement to increase the presence of police in schools.

Safety Law News for 10/18/13

by Bernie James • October 18, 2013

A growing number of schools are opting out of the implementation of Texas law HB 1009 that authorizes school districts to designate a trained staff member to act as a school marshal, authorized to carry a concealed handgun to respond in emergency situations.

In a 9-7-1 vote, the Tantasqua, Massachusetts Regional School Committee rejected a school resource officer in both the high school and junior high school based on the belief that an outside police source would cause more harm than good in the schools.

The $15 million that Connecticut lawmakers authorized to enhance security at schools across the state after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings was not enough: More than 600 public schools applied for grants totaling $21 million.

Phoenix will hire 15 new police officers, thanks to a grant from the U.S. Justice Department that will assign some of the new officers to local schools as part of the School Resource Officer Program.

Modesto City Schools were awarded a $1 million grant by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services. The grant will fund eight new school resource officers, one for every large Modesto high school and one for the alternative school campus.

Safety Law News for 10/15/13

by Bernie James • October 15, 2013

The Police Commission and Board of Education for Weston, Connecticut are working on the terms of a memorandum of understanding as they move forward with their plans to hire a school resource officer (SRO).

The City-School Liaison Committee of Evanston, Illinois is debating the wisdom of extending the gun-free, gang-free “safe schools zone” across the street to the public sidewalks. Under the proposal, school personnel would then have the authority to tell people previously identified as troublemakers to move on or face stronger actions.

The school safety teams in Wayne, New Jersey have committed to participating in Rutgers University’s Bullying Prevention Institute, a yearlong program that helps districts develop a custom bullying prevention plan.

Akron, Ohio schools and police debate their concerns over ALICE, (Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter and Evacuate). The curriculum, for which police officers are trained and certified, has a reputation for advocating violence on a would-be attacker.

School board trustees from the Newport-Mesa, California Unified schools unanimously vote to utilize detection dogs in response to an increasing youth drug problem in the community.

Safety Law News for 10/7/13

by Bernie James • October 7, 2013

Officials in Ohio with the Nelsonville-York City School District are determined to have a school resource officer, but school board members have decided to drop the proposed contract with the Athens County Sheriff’s office and to arrange for an SRO in-house.

School officials and parents in Seymour, Connecticut, have made it clear to the Board of Police Commissioners that they want some sort of police presence in and around the public schools.

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 Clarksville, Arkansas School District have supplied firearms to 13 trained teachers and staff in the District’s five campuses. District officials hope to boost the number to 22.

The Connecticut Voices for Children have released a study, “Arresting Development: Student Arrests in Connecticut,” and reports an overall drop in the number of student arrests statewide, attributing that decline to reforms in school discipline policies.

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

by Bernie James • October 2, 2013

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.

A school resource officer is forced to resign after incorrectly believing that she needed probable cause to assist an administrator searching a student with a gun.

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.

School Resource Officers in New York are receiving training to identify behavioral health risks and initiate intervention by school counselors and administrators as determined by school district policy.

The University of Arkansas-Criminal Justice Institute is providing training in hostage negotiation for school resource officers in the state.

Safety Law News for 9/30/13

by Bernie James • September 30, 2013

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

North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory signed an Executive Order to create the Safer Schools Task Force. The Task Force will be a multidisciplinary advisory board of parents, students, teachers, school administrators, and law enforcement officers on future policy making to improve school safety in North Carolina.

Members of the Seymour, Connecticut Board of Education were surprised and parents were disappointed to find out there will be no police presence within the Seymour School District this year.

Norwich, Connecticut police officers were returned to the district’s two middle schools, after the City Council unanimously voted Tuesday to use $150,000 in excess education costs to help pay for the school safety program.

The Westchester County, New York Board of Legislators Tuesday night approved agreements to allow county police officers to serve as school resource officers in two school districts.

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