- 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.