• Four Tennessee counties rush to add school resource officers to elementary schools.
• Idaho school district begin installing gun safes inside each of the high schools and middle schools. School resource officers would keep semi-automatic rifles inside the safes in case of an emergency.
• Georgia State Representative proposes legislation that would allow students to carry guns on college campuses throughout the state.
• Texas legislators introduce legislation that would prohibit the use of high-tech student badges (RFID technology) now used to track students. The proposal would allow parents to opt out of a tracking program.
• Going against a recommendation by schools Superintendent, a Maryland Board of Education votes to use state funding to pay for school security personnel and equipment, along with mental health services.
• Tennessee teachers Union does not want teachers armed in schools and opposes legislation being considered by state legislature.
• Florida officials consider using retired cops to provide school safety schools while saving money.
• U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer introduced legislation to strengthen and expand the existing COPS Secure Our Schools grants program to provide schools with more resources.
• Parents in Minnesota meet to discuss how to get the School District to consider upgrades to security in the public schools.
• Pennsylvania legislature introduces School Resource Officer Bill 196, which calls for funding for school resource officers in state public schools.
• Alaska legislature considering bill that would allow teachers and other staff members to be armed with guns.
• A non-profit firearms foundation has signed up more than 600 educators from more than a dozen states to receive firearms training.
• The Lafayette, Louisiana school system and Police Department have made adjustments to the use of school resource officers following the rape of a student on campus.
• Local New Hampshire citizens prepare to vote to bring back school resource officers removed by the school board.
• Winston-Salem schools report a major reduction in student suspensions using new disciplinary program that actively involves school resource officers and school administrators.
• Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell is asking lawmakers to hold off on spending more than $32 million in unappropriated money until after his new school safety task force makes its initial recommendations.
• Mississippi Lt. Governor is asking lawmakers to OK $7.5 million to create a grant program to increase the number of law enforcement officers in public schools across the state.
• The Indiana Attorney General is putting his support behind a recently filed bill in the State Senate that would offer state funded grants to school districts hiring resource officers.
• In the wake of last month’s Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Connecticut, a Tennessee County Board is making plans to hire 15 new SROs at an estimated cost of $725,000 per year.
• The Virginia legislature is considering legislation that would require school divisions and law enforcement agencies to work together to put a uniformed, full-time school resource officer in every school.