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Safety Law News for 3/27/13

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• Brookfield, Connecticut officials have heard the outcry of families desperate to ensure that their children and educators are safe in their schools and increased the budget so the police department can train and assign officers to the high school and middle school.

• The school resource officer in Ulster County, New York, whose gun went off while at the school on March 5, has resigned from the police department.

• Shenandoah County, Virginia’s Sheriff proposes to fund the school resource officer program using asset forfeiture money.

• Horse Cave, Kentucky’s Caverna High School begins school safety program that features a 24/7 law enforcement presence.

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Safety Law News for 3/22/13

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• The Phoenix, Arizona mayor introduces a school safety program that would add additional SROs at a cost of less than 50 percent of the traditional school resource officer, and would maintain the same duties.

• The Snohomish County, Washington Sheriff’s Office has launched a new School Service Unit that will serve over 100 public and private schools spread out over almost 2,000 square miles in unincorporated Snohomish County.

• By a 68-23 vote, the Oklahoma House of Representatives approve legislation that will allow armed teachers in schools.

• Voters in Monadnock, New Hampshire reinstate SRO position at the Monadnock Regional Middle/High School.  The position was cut from the school district budget last year after an SRO worked at the school for 11 years.

 

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Safety Law News for 3/20/13

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• The East Contra Costa, California  school district want to keep its school resource officer program to avoid isolation and long emergency response times of at least 10 minutes.

• The Ohio legislature introduces Senate Bill 74, which would allow school districts to use a property tax levy exclusively to pay for the cost of implementing school resource officer programs.

• The South Dakota legislature has sent a bill to the governor that would authorize “school sentinels” — armed teachers, administrators, security guards or community volunteers.

• Indiana lawmakers are considering legislation that would help fund school resource officers through matching grants.

• Beaufort County, South Carolina has reassigned six deputies from animal control to schools to implement a school resource officer program.

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Safety Law News for 3/15/13

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• Brimfield Township, Ohio school resource officers are proactively taking steps to keep students safer and calmer in an emergency by spearheading a campaign called “Go Bucket.”

• Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot crossed political party lines to announce backing legislation to put school resource officers in every public school in the state.

• The federal appeals court in Atlanta this summer will hear the appeal of Birmingham school resource officers who dispute claims that they violated constitutional rights by using pepper spray on students.

• At a time when school resource officers’ responsibilities are growing, Twin Cities, Minnesota cities are decreasing school resource officers in response to budget cuts.

 

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Safety Law News for 3/12/13

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• The Oklahoma House of Representatives approve House Bill 1062, that authorizes teachers who take a 120-hour training course to bring handguns into their classrooms.

• The Alabama Senate has approved legislation that reverses a 2005 law and a policy by the State Board of Education that banned the practice of school resource officers and security personnel having guns on campus.

• Tampa, Florida alternative school student chokes school resource officer, tries to flee campus.

• An Arkansas House of Representatives committee rejected a proposal that would allow school employees to carry guns in schools after completing an active shooter training course.

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Safety Law News for 3/8/13

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  •  Highland, New York school resource officer suspended during investigation of an accidental discharge of his gun in the hallway of Highland High School during the school day.
  • Knox County, Tennessee schools are asking the County Commission for an extra $1.9 million in next year’s budget to being hiring, training, and equipping an additional 58 school resource officers so they will be ready for the beginning of next school year.
  • Sullivan County, Tennessee schools safety task force declares that behavioral assessments and positive influences on school culture are as important as building security and school resource officers.