Safety Law News for May 22, 2018

  • In Colorado, officials in the Denver Public Schools are exploring a new policy of creating an in-house school district police department.  Under the plan, the goal is to select and train armed police officers with power to arrest students, but in a manner consistent with district restorative justice policy, thereby relying less on outside police and ending the school-to-jail pipeline.

 

 

 

  • In New York, the Warren County Supervisors approved a new policy that will place a school resource officer in each school.  Each school district will collaborate with the County Sheriff’s Office for selection, training, and supervision of the officers.