- Court upholds discipline of a student who broadcasted a string of increasingly violent and threatening instant messages from home to his friends bragging about his weapons, threatening to shoot specific classmates, intimating that he would “take out” other people at a school shooting on a specific date. [Wynar v. Douglas County School Dist.]
- The Glynn County, Georgia School Board is implementing a policy that will define when, where and on whom school resource officers can use the stun guns.
- Sullivan, New York legislators unanimously approved a resolution to implement a school resource officer program in area schools after superintendents of the respective districts attended the meeting to appeal for the SROs.
- Civil rights groups filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division to investigate policing in the Wake County, North Carolina school system. The complaint alleges that police officers routinely violate the Constitutional rights of minority students.