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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.

 

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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.