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Safety Law News for 8/17/12

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• A 17-year-old Ohio high school student admits to being a drug “czar” with six lieutenants  – all operating on the school campus selling pot to students.

• Troy, Michigan educators’ sexting policy gives notice to students that in any future investigation of a sexting incident, a school official may search a student’s cell phone, computer or other electronic device.

• Virginia school district builds relationship with local police to be proactive and not reactive in school safety and protecting the lives of the students.  The focus is on building up the relationship with students.

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Safety Law News for 8/15/12

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  • Video: outside Boston, a recovery high school focuses on helping suburban kids to quit alcohol and drugs. Among the students who stay in school and stay sober for 90 days, this school enjoys a strong 92 percent graduation rate.
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Safety Law News for 8/13/12

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  •  Michigan’s Dearborn Schools—which recorded 919 bullying incidents in the last school year—is an early adapter as a new state law requires all school districts to establish anti-bullying programs and policies.
  • Online behavior, or “cyber civics” is now taught at one California school. Among the students who started taking this course in sixth grade, no cyberbullying problems have surfaced since the course began.
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Safety Law News for 8/10/12

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  • People in Palm Beach County, Florida want to join Facebook and Twitter—and this is the school district talking. The district sees social media as ways to share information with the community, rather than treating online services primary methods of conversation.
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Safety Law News for 8/8/12

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  • When Pennsylvania policymakers realized that school districts could not hire SROs, they changed state law to permit SRO hires. When “kids recognize and have a relationship with [SROs, this] deters them from hanging out with the wrong crowd and reminds them to concentrate on their school work,” said state representative Tom Rock, who authored the bill.
  • Random drug tests may end at New Jersey’s Hillsborough High, where educators are not convinced that the tests are reducing drug abuse.
  • Minnesota educators and police collaborated to make a Twitter account non-public. It contained explicit and derogatory statements about local high school students.
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Safety Law News for 8/6/12

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  • In Chicago, boys in an anti-violence mentoring program have demonstrated a 44 percent drop in arrests for violent crimes and as much as a 23 percent increase in graduate rates.
  • Officer Tom Speece, a West Virginia SRO, was honored for stopping a student from bringing a shotgun to school. In presenting Speece with an award, the U.S. Attorney said that Speece has “built a level of trust with Ravenswood students that allowed him to find out about a problem before it turned into a tragedy, and he handled that problem superbly.”
  • Sagging pants and short skirts are the targets of a new dress code in North Carolina, where educators and students worked together to develop better policies on what students wear.