• In Kentucky, the Governor signed into law Senate Bill 8, requiring all Kentucky school districts to arm their school resource officers.
• In Georgia, United States Court of Appeals ruled that a school resource officer’s conduct, including placing a student in a choke hold and carrying her away by the neck, was not so grossly disproportionate to the situation as to constitute excessive force. The student had been fighting with another student whom she had punched in the face, and was combative toward the officer who was trying to deescalate the situation. (Hines v. Jefferson)
• In Florida, school resource officers in Polk County are continuing to mentor students despite the closing of schools because of the coronavirus outbreak. While the officers are completing annual training and staffing campus “school-meal” sites, they are also visiting students considered to be “at risk” and their families.
• In California, San Rafael City Schools will receive almost $1.12 million in state vaping prevention grants — the latest step in ongoing efforts to curb vaping among Marin youths. School officials plan to use the funds to expand collaboration with law enforcement and public health in programs on education, prevention and cessation of vaping.