- The Pennsylvania City of DuBois Police Department has revised a proposal to the DuBois Area School District in an effort to continue the 14-year-old School Resource Officer program.
- The Georgia Court of Appeals has ruled that a high school student’s detention at a youth detention center does constitute a disciplinary suspension by school officials that requires due process under the State Education Code. School officials did nothing more than exercise their discretion under the law to report alleged criminal action by the student.
- The California Court of Appeal has held that immunity from liability does not apply when a school official provides a copy of her mandatory report of suspected child abuse by mother to the suspected victims’ father. The case is Cuff v. Grossmont Union High School District.
- Students and parents at a Pinellas Park, Florida high school are fighting to keep their school resource officer on the job.