— In Colorado, the United States District Court held that the authority of school officials to discipline student speech under Tinker v. Des Moines Schools (393 U.S. 503 (1969)), applied to the off-campus speech of student who posted a picture to the social media platform Snapchat with the caption: “Me and the boys bout to exterminate the Jews.” The court held that despite the Supreme Court’s long-standing distinction between on-campus or school-sponsored speech, “that [t]he pervasive and omnipresent nature of the Internet has obfuscated the on-campus/off-campus distinction…mak[ing] any effort to trace First Amendment boundaries along the physical boundaries of a school campus a recipe for serious problems in our public schools.” [C1.G. v. Siegfried]
— In Alabama, the City of Altoona and the Etowah County Sheriff’s Office are partnering for the 2020-2021 school year to continue the school resource officer program.
— In Canada, funding has been pulled for school resource officers at two Ottawa-Carleton District School Board high schools, following a vote by school board trustees.
— In Virginia, the Radford City School Board passed a resolution in support of school resource officers. The Board statement said that, “Radford City Schools has a strong partnership with our city’s police department. We appreciate that the SRO’s are building relationships with students and are valuable resources within the Radford community. We are pleased to have them in our buildings.”
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