- In Missouri, school officials and police in St. Joseph attribute the significant decline in crime referrals to the presence of well-trained school resource officers. During 2015, referrals dropped by over 60 percent to nearly 449 cases.
- In Pennsylvania, an Allegheny County judge has denied a request by the Gateway School District for armed school police in its schools. The judge believes more thought needs to be put into the plan and more training needs to be developed for the officers.
- In Missouri, the Ozark Police Department is implementing a program called “Embrace a School.” Every Ozark officer is assigned one of Ozarks’ eight schools to stop by during their shift.
- In Massachusetts, the Worcester school system will begin giving drug addiction screenings to students. Called SBIRT, short for Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral to Treatment, the screenings are intended to identify early warning signs of drug addiction in students, and refer those kids for additional help.