by Bernie James • • Comments Off on Safety Law News for 4/7/14
Colquitt County, Georgia educators and law enforcement conduct campus sweeps for drugs several times each school year, using dogs to check out lockers and cars at the schools.
Baltimore County, Maryland officials unveiled a $3.7 million in school security system, including a “OneView” camera system that will make security footage available in real time to county police as well as to the county schools’ Department of School Safety and Security.
School resource officers in Fairfax County, Virginia are now receiving suicide awareness and intervention training. The goal is to improve inter-agency collaboration with school officials, social workers, and counselors as they identify kids in crisis and provide them with meaningful intervention.
A federal court panel rules that a school resource officer who used chemical spray on a high school student a second time, when she was allegedly incapacitated, non-resistant, and writhing in pain on the ground, was not entitled to qualified immunity against a claim of unreasonable force, even if the first use of chemical spray was reasonable due to the student’s resistance. [J.W. ex rel. Williams v. Roper].