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Safety Law News for 10/15/13

by Bernie James • October 15, 2013

The Police Commission and Board of Education for Weston, Connecticut are working on the terms of a memorandum of understanding as they move forward with their plans to hire a school resource officer (SRO).

The City-School Liaison Committee of Evanston, Illinois is debating the wisdom of extending the gun-free, gang-free “safe schools zone” across the street to the public sidewalks. Under the proposal, school personnel would then have the authority to tell people previously identified as troublemakers to move on or face stronger actions.

The school safety teams in Wayne, New Jersey have committed to participating in Rutgers University’s Bullying Prevention Institute, a yearlong program that helps districts develop a custom bullying prevention plan.

Akron, Ohio schools and police debate their concerns over ALICE, (Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter and Evacuate). The curriculum, for which police officers are trained and certified, has a reputation for advocating violence on a would-be attacker.

School board trustees from the Newport-Mesa, California Unified schools unanimously vote to utilize detection dogs in response to an increasing youth drug problem in the community.

Safety Law News for 10/7/13

by Bernie James • October 7, 2013

Officials in Ohio with the Nelsonville-York City School District are determined to have a school resource officer, but school board members have decided to drop the proposed contract with the Athens County Sheriff’s office and to arrange for an SRO in-house.

School officials and parents in Seymour, Connecticut, have made it clear to the Board of Police Commissioners that they want some sort of police presence in and around the public schools.

The Etowah County, Alabama School Resource Officer and the Director of Student Services are teaching school administrators to flee, barricade or defend themselves — in that order — when faced with a school intruder who is intent on causing great harm. The program is called “Run, Hide, Fight.”

The Clarksville, Arkansas School District have supplied firearms to 13 trained teachers and staff in the District’s five campuses. District officials hope to boost the number to 22.

The Connecticut Voices for Children have released a study, “Arresting Development: Student Arrests in Connecticut,” and reports an overall drop in the number of student arrests statewide, attributing that decline to reforms in school discipline policies.

The New London, Connecticut schools superintendent is challenging a study that shows student arrests in New London were four times the statewide rate in 2011. Superintendent Nicholas Fischer said the numbers are simply not credible. He said a school database that tracks student arrests shows just 15 arrests during the year covered by the study.

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.

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