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Safety Law News for 2/17/14

by Bernie James • February 17, 2014

The Argyle Independent School District in Texas, is implementing the new School Marshal program created as a result of the passage of House Bill 1009 Protection of Texas Children Act. The program certifies school marshals and expands law enforcement in schools.

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett announced that $3.9 million has been awarded to 81 schools and municipalities for the placement of school resource officers and school police officers in schools across Pennsylvania.

Rural school districts in Texas that are without a nearby police force have quietly trained members of the faculty who carry or have the authority to carry concealed weapons.

The Pinellas County, Florida School Board has entered into an agreement with the county sheriff’s office on new school discipline rules. Under the new rules students who violate the student conduct code will be punished by the school administration and minor crimes will not result in an arrest if it’s the student’s first incident.

Safety Law News for 2/13/14

by Bernie James • February 13, 2014

Court upholds discipline of a student who broadcasted a string of increasingly violent and threatening instant messages from home to his friends bragging about his weapons, threatening to shoot specific classmates, intimating that he would “take out” other people at a school shooting on a specific date. [Wynar v. Douglas County School Dist.]

The Glynn County, Georgia School Board is implementing a policy that will define when, where and on whom school resource officers can use the stun guns.

Sullivan, New York legislators unanimously approved a resolution to implement a school resource officer program in area schools after superintendents of the respective districts attended the meeting to appeal for the SROs.

Civil rights groups filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division to investigate policing in the Wake County, North Carolina school system. The complaint alleges that police officers routinely violate the Constitutional rights of minority students.

Safety Law News for 2/7/14

by Bernie James • February 7, 2014

Scotland County, North Carolina officials have agreed to provide school resource officers at every elementary school in the district.

Municipal officials in Jackson, New Jersey have taken a step toward reinstating the school resource officer program after unanimously approving a resolution that paves the way for a shared services agreement with the Jackson School District.

The U.S. Justice Department has issued new guidance to educators on school discipline. The guidelines are aimed at ending the use of discipline that takes students out of school.

The Paterson, New Jersey school superintendent chose to discontinue the practice of having the retired officers have guns while working in the schools in the fall of 2012. But the district has reconsidered that decision after the Newtown tragedy.

Safety Law News for 2/4/14

by Bernie James • February 4, 2014

Wayne County, Michigan Sheriff Barry Virts would like to create a county-wide resource officer program because of the success of the previous program in building relationships with students and teaching classes.

The Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board has deactivated the certification of the Peoria Public School District’s police force. As a result, the school resource officers will not be able to exercise police powers.

Cyberbullying is now one of the biggest issues student resource officers deal with at all grade levels across Montana.

School resource officers in Mississippi are now being trained to be information liaisons with Mississippi Homeland Security. The purpose of the training is to equip SROs to assess and handle confidential data, and make sure it is shared with appropriate agencies statewide.

Safety Law News for 1/24/14

by Bernie James • January 24, 2014

Marijuana problems in Colorado schools increase with legalization. More students and younger kids are bringing marijuana to schools.

Officials in Kennebunk, Maine consider their school resource officers to be “more than a police presence in our schools.”

Indiana State Attorney General Greg Zoeller wants more funding for school resource officers.

Officials in Irvine, California and Fall River, Massachusetts are bucking the trend of reducing budgets and reducing the number of officers dedicated to serving schools. Irvine officials are adding an additional school resource officer this year to serve Irvine Unified School District’s middle schools. Fall River officials are adding ten new school resource officers.

Safety Law News for 1/16/14

by Bernie James • January 16, 2014

Topeka, Kansas police interrupt a plan by a 17-year old student to shoot two law enforcement officers and two administrators at Topeka West High School.

A Florida appellate court decision upholds the search of the book bag by a school official based upon an anonymous tip. The court ruled that the level of reliability required to justify a search is lower when the tip concerns possession by a student of a firearm in a public school classroom. [K.P. v. State].

In Texas, the passage of Senate Bill 393 that restricts school police officers from issuing Class C misdemeanors for fighting, trespassing and having drug paraphernalia is changing the role of school resource officer.

Indiana Supreme Court upholds use of Taser by school resource officer against student whose conviction for resisting law enforcement, as a Class A misdemeanor, and disorderly conduct, a Class B misdemeanor were upheld. [Walker v. State].

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