Safety Law News for 8/23/13
- The Hazleton, Pennsylvania Board of Education reversed its previous decision to hire unarmed security guards to monitor the metal detectors and directed administrators to hire armed school resource officers for its eight elementary-middle schools.
- The Okaloosa County, Florida School Board placed school resource officers in all schools just before Christmas break last year in wake of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. Now the educators are debating whether they want to cover the cost of keeping deputies in all the schools in the coming school year.
- Four Chester County, South Carolina sheriff deputies are paid to work at schools in Chester, Great Falls and Lewisville. The request by the sheriff for money from the County Council to hire seven more school resource officers was denied, despite the school district’s pledge to pay half the cost.
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