by Bernie James • • Comments Off on Safety Law News for 8/6/12
In Chicago, boys in an anti-violence mentoring program have demonstrated a 44 percent drop in arrests for violent crimes and as much as a 23 percent increase in graduate rates.
Officer Tom Speece, a West Virginia SRO, was honored for stopping a student from bringing a shotgun to school. In presenting Speece with an award, the U.S. Attorney said that Speece has “built a level of trust with Ravenswood students that allowed him to find out about a problem before it turned into a tragedy, and he handled that problem superbly.”
Sagging pants and short skirts are the targets of a new dress code in North Carolina, where educators and students worked together to develop better policies on what students wear.