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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.
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Safety Law News for 8/20/13

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  • The Franklin County, Tennessee Commission voted unanimously against a 5-cent property tax increase as a means to fund the school resource officers program.  The Commissioners are now questioning why the county should fully fund the SRO program and are requesting the school system chip more into the effort.
  • All schools in Williamson County, Tennessee have school resource officers.  Now, the district’s protocols and safety procedures require that all school purchase and install 23 gun safes for officers to store equipment they may need while on the job.
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Safety Law News for 8/19/13

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  •  The Baldwin, Kansas school board voted unanimously to reintroduce a school resource officer program in its schools after being without an SRO for four years.
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Safety Law News for 8/12/13

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  • Delaware editorial disagrees with SRO critics that “intense interrogation” case of a third-grader by the school’s resource officer proves that police officers should not be in the schools.
  • The Arizona Department of Education will disperse about $8.4 million for schools safety.  Most of the money, about $7.4 million, will pay for the salaries and benefits of 95 school-resource officers for 102 schools.
  • The Laramie, Wyoming River Valley Rendezvous, a five-day nonprofit camp that unites at-risk youth with law enforcement, firefighters and military members. The workers spend the week encouraging, mentoring and developing positive relationships that changes some at-risk youth’s perceptions of authority.
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School Safety Law News for 8/7/13

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• Fremont County, Colorado educators and law enforcement collaborated to create the Cañon City Junior Law Enforcement Academy.  The Cañon City Police Department and School District held the one-week program for 13- 17-year-olds who might have an interest in going into a law enforcement career.

• Private insurance companies that insure all Kansas school districts have refused to renew coverage for schools that permit teachers and custodians to carry concealed firearms on their campuses under the new Kansas law, which took effect July 1.

• The Allegany County Board of Education voted on Tuesday to approve the School Safety and Security Committee’s recommendation to hire a combination of retired officers and school resource officers to provide additional school security.

• The Leflore County, Mississippi School Board has created a campus police department for the district’s six schools.

• The Burlington, North Carolina Police Department, North Carolina Justice Academy, and the Alamance-Burlington School System collaborate in offering the Junior Police Academy to 31 rising seventh-grade and eighth-grade students who are recommended by the educators.

• The Dickson County, Tennessee Mayor has asked the county commission to shelve a portion of the county’s building maintenance plan for a year in order to provide $500,000 for schools security.