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Safety Law News for 12/17/12

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•  Drug detection dogs that have routinely been used in Michigan high schools are being brought into middle schools by administrators who say they want to send a message to the younger students.

• District of Columbia schools are being asked to begin reporting campus safety data to parents.

• Virginia high school students vow to take “Rachel’s Challenge” and, through small acts of kindness, create an atmosphere of kindness and compassion inside their schools.

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Safety Law News for 12/12/12

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  • Swift action taken by a Maryland high school student, a teacher and School Resource Officer prevent two adults from committing robbery on campus.
  • CASAColumbia’s 2012 teen survey reveals that 86 percent of American high school students say that some classmates are drugging, drinking and smoking during the school day and almost half know a student who sells drugs at their school. The survey also reveals that 52 percent of high school students say that there is a place on or near school grounds where students go to get high during the school day.  Thirty-six percent say it is easy for students to use drugs, drink or smoke during the school day without getting caught. 
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Safety Law News for 11/27/12

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  • California educators are implementing random, mandatory drug tests for about 15 percent of student athletes in their school district, after suspending “an unexpectedly high number” of student athletes for drug and alcohol use.
  • An app for SROs: students and parents can discretely contact the SROs in Maryland. There are numerous commercial apps for purchase, according to Kevin Quinn, president of the National Association of School Resource Officers, but Maryland police spent about $600 creating their own.
  • Anti-drug officials in Illinois are turning to students for help. The county developed a nationwide model for combating drugs, but is still seeing deadly student overdoses. “We need help. We need partners. Young people are not going to listen to an old guy in a suit standing up here talking,” a state attorney said.
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Safety Law News for 11/15/12

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  • A Memphis high school newspaper describes a gang awareness assembly that resonated with students, despite their initial apathy toward the speaker.
  • A high school principal in Massachusetts, who is often asked how parents should be involved in their children’s lives, writes about effective parental involvement.
  • Under state law, Ohio’s Department of Education currently tracks almost 1.9 million students without names, addresses, or Social Security numbers. Some policymakers are urging a legal change that would grant the state access to this juvenile information.
  • Maryland educators are questioning the effectiveness of an alcohol policy, which allows schools to discipline student athletes for off-campus drinking.