- A School Safety Task Force will recommend that South Carolina schools practice more safety lock-down drills and have more School Resource Officers and more school psychologists.
- Police and school officials in Providence, Rhode Island have signed an inter-agency agreement on a safe schools program in which principals have the final say over school discipline.
- The Knox County, Tennessee Sheriff’s Department now requires its school resource officers to stay current on online bullying practices and has implemented online bullying training.
- The North Carolina Center for Safer Schools has released its 2014 Report to the Governor. It includes the implementation of a new state law that requires that schools have a school safety plan.