by Bernie James • • Comments Off on Safety Law News for 3/6/13
The South Dakota legislature sent a bill to Gov. Dennis Daugaard that would allow school boards to place armed sentinels in their public schools as a safety measure if they choose.
South Carolina policymakers debate legislation that would provide the funding to hire school resource officers for every elementary school in the state at a cost of $80 million.
St. Petersburg, Florida SRO catches students on campus smoking marijuana while in possession of a loaded gun.
The Washington State Senate passed Senate Bill 5618 that, if enacted, would give a police officer serving as a school resource officer the right to search a student based on mere reasonable suspicion rather than probable cause. The legislation is intended to overrule a 2012 decision by the Washington Court Supreme Court (State v. Meneese, 174 Wn.2d 937, 282 P.3d 83) that rejected the school search exception to the warrant requirement for school resource officers.