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Safety Law News for 6/13/14

by Bernie James • June 13, 2014

Middletown, Connecticut officials from the school district and the police department have signed a “Right Response” agreement that looks to allow for better discretion from administrators and school resource officers on how to handle behavioral problems.

Five sheriff’s deputies will continue to serve as school resource officers in Livingston Parish public schools following the Louisiana school board’s unanimous vote to renew a contract with the Sheriff’s Office.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Public Schools have agreed on a deal to hire additional Oklahoma City Police as school resource officers who will serve in the district’s elementary schools.

For the second year in a row, Indiana policymakers have expressed strong support for grant funding to create new school resource officer positions or continue existing ones. The State has renewed or approved 141 grant applications totaling more than $4 million to employ school resource officers in schools.

Safety Law News for 6/2/14

by Bernie James • June 2, 2014

Oklahoma City Public Schools plans to expand the school resource officer program to add SROs for the elementary schools.

School resource officers, in Gainesville, Georgia have access to all of the security cameras inside Gainesville City Schools. The cameras are networked so that the SRO can not only see the cameras inside their school but other schools as well.”

Wiscasset, Maine schools will have a school resource officer for the next school year after residents voted to dip into the town’s reserve fund to cover the costs of providing more campus safety.

Wake County, North Carolina schools are implementing new guidelines on the role of school resource officers assigned to schools. The changes include recommendations made by civil-rights groups.

Safety Law News for 5/27/14

by Bernie James • May 27, 2014

The Florida Court of Appeals has upheld a jury verdict that found a school board negligent for failing to discipline a student with an extensive disciplinary history. [Duval County School Bd. v. Buchanan ex rel. Cox]

The U.S. Department of Justice has given the Charles County, Maryland School Resource Officers Program the designation of “a model for the nation” for building a culture of trust in the schools.

Elected officials in Red Deer County in central Alberta, Canada have voted unanimously to implement a school resource officer program in all of its schools.

More than 1,000 fifth-grade students in Highlands County, Florida attended the county’s annual DARE graduation event to celebrate the end of their year in the drug education program.

Safety Law News for 5/20/14

by Bernie James • May 20, 2014

In Berkeley County, South Carolina a rampage by a middle school student with a semi-automatic weapon was prevented by the actions of a school resource officer.

Canadian officials in Edmonton, Calgary Public Schools and Edmonton Catholic Schools are banning the use of e-cigarettes on school district property.

How one parent in Beaufort County, South Carolina helped her son survive in-school bullying.

The Indiana Court of Appeals ruled that a school district is not entitled to immunity for injuries to a student that are reasonably foreseeable. Indiana educators have a “special duty,” to supervise students. [M.S.D. of Martinsville v. Jackson.]

Safety Law News for 5/12/14

by Bernie James • May 12, 2014

Indiana has enacted a law that allows firearms in locked vehicles on school grounds. Beginning July 1, having a gun in a school parking lot will no longer be a felony. See Senate Enrolled Act 229.

The N.C. General Assembly has enacted a law that requires every public school to have a panic alarm system installed. The alarms won’t replace school resource officers.

Public outcry has prompted reversal in the decision to remove two of the three school resource officers in Brewton City, Alabama Schools. Officials say the SROs will remain in school through the end of the school year and will return to their schools in the fall.

The Indiana legislature has upgraded the qualifications for persons desiring to be a school resource officer. Under the law, a school resource must be: (1) employed by a law enforcement agency; (2) appointed as a police reserve officer or special deputy; or employed as a school corporation police officer. See Senate Bill 85.

Safety Law News for 5/5/14

by Bernie James • May 5, 2014

The Meramec Valley, Missouri School District is color-coding school halls with a map and placard system that enables first responders to identify hall colors from outside the building so they can quickly get to any problem spot.

Officials in Calgary, Alberta, Canada are implementing the “Youth Resource Officer Program.” The collaborative program brings teachers and police officers together in junior high schools with a curriculum that teaches lessons on staying safe, making good decisions, fostering healthy relationships, and promoting pro-social and positive behaviors.

School officials in Merced County, California report that the agreement with the sheriff’s department to provide a school resource officer for an elementary school is making an immediate, noticeable impact on campus.

In Rice County, Minnesota, officials in Northfield High School have implemented the “It Can Wait” campaign to the students and community with the goal of getting pledges to not text and drive. The junior and senior classes are competing to see who can get the most pledges to not text and drive. The school resource officer is leading the program.

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