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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.

Safety Law News for 9/25/13

by Bernie James • September 25, 2013

Indiana’s Homeland Security director wants more clarification as to who can certify the training of school resource officers.

Connecticut State Police to open satellite offices at the public schools in Harwinton and Burlington.

Montgomery County, Maryland schools appropriated $1.67 million in county bonds for security cameras in the schools. In total, hallway cameras have been installed in 132 elementary schools, interior cameras at 37 middle schools and 18 high schools, and exterior cameras at 38 middle schools and 25 high schools.

Deputies with the Burleigh County, North Dakota Sheriff’s Department now ride on school buses as part of the “Deputy on a Bus” program.

Beaufort County, South Carolina is expanding its school resource-officer program into the elementary schools.

Safety Law News for 9/23/13

by Bernie James • September 23, 2013

The Texas Legislature has implemented Senate Bill 393 that prevents school police officers from issuing citations for misbehavior at school, excluding traffic violations. Officers can still submit complaints about students, but it will be up to a local prosecutor whether to charge the student with a Class C misdemeanor.

Richland County, South Carolina Sheriff’s Department High School Resource Officer Uses Chess to Teach Life Lessons.

All Randolph County, Alabama schools get school resource officers after a last minute meeting by the Randolph County Board of Education.

After shooting at an elementary school, the DeKalb County, Georgia Superintendent responds to security concerns due to fact that there is an SRO assigned to each high school and middle school and none at the district’s 77 elementary schools.

The Steuben County, New York Sheriff’s office has announced the return of the School Resource Officers Program after the program was cut after the 2010-2011 academic year because of a lack of state funding. Six districts in the county have picked up retired officers for $25,000 a year.

Safety Law News for 9/19/13

by Bernie James • September 19, 2013

It appears that no South Dakota school districts will implement a new state law that allows teachers and volunteers to carry firearms in buildings.

Gadsden City, Alabama Schools will have school resource officers on every campus because of a long-term contract with the police department to use off-duty police officers.

Officials in Clayton County, Arkansas are implementing an interagency agreement to shift the school safety program from “zero tolerance” school policing to the Positive Student Engagement Model for School Policing.

School officials in Oak Ridge, Tennessee have signed an interagency agreement that provides clear roles for guaranteeing school safety. The agreement was reached in response to community concerns that school conditions had deteriorated to the extent that some children were afraid to go to school.

After spending the summer considering whether to hire armed guards to watch over some Costa Mesa, California schools, the school district has decided to stick with police officers for their school resource officer program.

A detailed, statistical report from Legal Aid of North Carolina’s Advocates for Children’s Services charges that the officials in the Wake County, North Carolina school system have fallen short on efforts to reduce both the length and number of student suspensions.

Safety Law News for 9/13/13

by Bernie James • September 13, 2013

The Benton-Carroll-Salem, Ohio School District is implementing the ALICE program. The ALICE program — the acronym stands for Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, Evacuate— is a revamped perspective on how students should react if a shooter or dangerous intruder enters their school building.

Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller announces the September 30 deadline for school safety grants. $10 million dollars is available to state public schools for employing a school resource officer or conducting a threat assessment, or purchasing equipment.

Policymakers in Marshall County, Alabama have reached a compromise that will pay for a school resource officer at every campus in the county system.

The Young Lawyers Division of the Okaloosa County, Florida Bar Association is hosting a benefit concert to raise funds to help negate the cost of keeping the resource officers in schools.

Pittston, Pennsylvania board member says school district not doing enough for school safety after proposal to implement school resource officer program is rejected.

The Spokane Public School system has decided to allow specially trained school resource officers to carry guns on school grounds.

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