• In New York, the Lockport City School District is installing facial recognition technology to monitor who’s on the campuses of its schools. Lockport school officials believe that, “if the technology had been in place at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., the deadly 2018 attack there may never have happened.”
• In Indiana, the Indiana Youth Tobacco Survey from the Indiana State Department of Health just released its most recent youth tobacco survey, finding that the use of e-cigarettes increased 400 percent among middle and high school students from 2012 to 2019.
• In Maryland, the parents of four students in the Montgomery County School District have filed lawsuits for injuries received while participating in school sponsored athletics. The lawsuits point to the hazing ritual that led to sexual assaults. The parents claim that school officials, “had extensive notice of the abusive and predatory brooming ritual perpetrated by the football players [and] … chose to ignore the danger it posed to the students.”
• In Tennessee, Davidson County officials, including school resource officers, are combating gang activity by implementing the GRIP Program. The “Gang Resistance and Intervention Program,” is a 9-month program that supervises and counsels children in the Davidson County area. If gang members end up in the juvenile justice system, they go to GRIP court.