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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.

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School Safety Law News for 8/5/13

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•  Despite making commitments for more school resource officers earlier this year, Swain County, North Carolina commissioners pulled the plug on its contribution toward two newly hired resource officers and quit contributing to the salary of the existing two resource officers as well.

•  The Lake County, Florida School District is introducing the Volunteers on Patrol Program to give school officials and resource officers more “eyes and ears” to deter, detect and delay threats to campus security.  100 citizens are sought to participate in the observation and reporting program to assist the school-based administrators with daily campus supervision.

• The Delaware Supreme Court has ruled that a school resource officer violated the rights of an 8-year-old student when he detained the youth and intimidated him into crying, all to coax a confession from another student who was the real suspect in the theft of a dollar bill.

• The Pennsylvania Legislature unanimously approved legislation that the Governor signed into law. Senate Bill 10 expands and enhances the safe schools grant program with over $8.5 million for funding of school safety initiatives to address the issue of school violence and improve school safety.

• The Atlanta school board has approved having at least one full-time Atlanta Police Department officer patrolling the halls of every middle school and high school.  The 55 officers will be required to go through training on how to work with students.

• The Newport News, Virginia Police Department and the City Boys and Girls Clubs continue a three-year-old program that places its 12 middle and high school resource officers in city Boys and Girls Clubs during the summer.  The program is designed to mentor youths and help shift their perceptions on police officers and what they do.

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Safety Law News for 8/2/13

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• The Steuben County, New York legislature voted unanimously to approve a plan that would put retired police officers in their public schools. have added security in their schools at a good bargain.

• The Pennsylvania Legislature has compromised on the details of state grants to help pay for school resource officers and emergency training and school violence prevention programs.

• An interagency agreement to renew for three years the school resource officer program was unanimously approved by the Norriton, Pennsylvania Board of Supervisors and the Norristown Area School Board.

• New Jersey Governor Chris Christie says school resource officers should not be in public schools.

• South Dakota’s new  “School Sentinel” law has been in effect for one month and local schools are now faced with deciding how to implement it. The law allows teachers in South Dakota to carry loaded firearms onto school grounds.

• New Haven, Connecticut’s Police Athletic League (P.A.L.) has merged with Yale’s Camp New Haven to host a free summer camp for area children.  The program has doubled in size to 150 spots this year.  Nine school resource officers, two Yale Police Department officers, 15 Youth@Work members, 15 Yale football team members and a handful of volunteers are helping with the program.