by Bernie James • • Comments Off on Safety Law News for May 17, 2016
In Texas, the Irving Police Department has joined the Dallas Police Department to placed body cameras on its school resource officers. The data from the camera footage will be stored online.
In Virginia, a pilot program in Roanoke schools will implement restorative justice disciplinary procedures with the goal of reducing police involvement in campus disruptions.
In Tennessee, a disagreement between police and educators over the arrest and handcuffing of disruptive elementary school students has led to a community-wide debate over whether to implement restorative policies in the schools.