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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.

 

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Safety Law News 7/29/13

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  • Educators and school resource officers in Huntsville and Madison County, Alabama schools collaborate to host 150 fifth and sixth graders from Huntsville and Madison County schools for a summer camp that teaches the students the importance of staying away from gangs, drugs and bullying.
  • Educators from the Scranton, Pennsylvania and local police collaborate to host the 2013 School Resource Officer Summer Camp Program at Scranton High School.  The camp offers eight days of swimming, games and team-oriented activities with police officers.
  •  Massachusetts legislator, Tom Calter, has proposed a “Community Safe School Fund” law to support school safety by creating a funding formula for hiring school resource officers.
  •  The Paterson, New Jersey Board of Education has adopted a plan that would allow 11 retired police officers who work on the district’s security staff to resume carrying weapons in city schools after they complete a special state training program.
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Safety Law News for 7/25/13

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  • Richland, South Carolina school officials believe that school resource officers need to be in all the schools, but they say that they may not have the funding to hire the officers by the start of the school year because requests to Richland County Council for partial funding have been met with uncertainty.
  • Officials in Lexington, South Carolina are looking at bringing school resource officers on board in the coming year for each of its 12 elementary schools and opening at least two substations for deputies on or near the facilities.
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Safety Law News for 7/22/13

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  • The Columbia Board of Education has voted against a measure that would have allowed two school officials to carry guns on campus.  Instead, the Board would prefer resource officers.
  •  A school resource officer will be working at every one of the campuses of the New Philadelphia, Ohio City Schools District during the 2013-14 academic year.
  •  U.S. Attorney for West Virginia announces recommendations for school safety. These include the placement of more police officers, retired officers and veterans in schools.
  •  The Tallahassee, Florida schools are sending students to the Leon County Sheriff’s “Adventure Camp.”  The Camp is free to students.  The goal of the camp is to build a bridge between the kids, their community and the resource officers.

 

 

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Safety Law News for 7/11/13

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  • Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine released recommendations from his school-safety task force of law enforcement, educators, mental health officials, firefighters and clergy.  The task force called for schools to provide detailed floor plans for law enforcement, and calls on state lawmakers to provide unspecified funding for school resource officers, security upgrades for buildings and mental health services.
  • Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell signed into law 12 new school safety policies.   The new laws provide for increased training and resources for educators, first responders, and mental health professionals in order to provide the safest school environment possible. Included is increased funding for school resource officers and mental health services, and a comprehensive statewide suicide prevention program.
  • The Miami County, Ohio commissioners have approved contracts with three county school districts (Bradford Village Schools, Milton Union Schools and Newton Schools), for the sheriff’s department to provide a school resource officer next school year.
  • Superintendent Eric J. Becoats of the Durham, North Carolina Public Schools, endorses the national study commissioned by the National Institute of Justice that shows that school resource officers using the GREAT Program succeed in fostering a supportive atmosphere that teaches a sense of trust and personal responsibility.