- Tennessee school systems – with and without with their own resource officers – aren’t showing any interest in a new Tennessee law allowing teachers with police training to carry guns.
- The Maine legislature rejected a bill that would have allowed trained and vetted public school employees to carry concealed firearms. The Maine Education Association, the state’s teachers union, also opposed the bill, while the state’s association of school superintendents remained neutral on the proposal.
- Virginia Governor McDonnell signed into law legislation that allows the hiring of more school resource officers (thanks to $1.3 million in grant funding), provides grants for security equipment improvements, and establishes campus threat assessment teams.
- The Wyoming Legislature’s Joint Education Committee, called for the introduction of legislation to increase penalties for drivers who pass school buses when warning lights are activated to signal that students are entering or leaving a bus.
- The Escambia County, Florida School Board unanimously voted to implement a new student rights policy that gives students the right ask for the school to call their parents if they are being questioned by a law enforcement officer.
- Violent crime on elementary school campuses has jumped 33 percent in Washington D.C. in 2012-2013, while the crime rate at middle and high schools fell.