The American Civil Liberties Union is calling on the Texas Education Agency to ban the use of Tasers by school resource officers. The FBI has opened an investigation about unreasonable use of force involving Tasers after a Cedar Creek, Texas…
Tag: campus safety
Safety Law News for 3/11/14
The Colorado House Judiciary Committee defeated HB 14-1157 on a 7 – 4 party line vote. The legislation would authorize school boards to develop policies that would allow employees to carry a concealed weapons on school grounds, if they hold a valid…
Safety Law News for 3/4/14
The Georgetown County, South Carolina School District has hired a former judge, former policeman and former school resource officer to take over its newly-expanded role as head of security. The School Board of Highlands County, Florida is updating its bullying…
Safety Law News for 2/25/14
Delaware Attorney General releases report on school compliance with new anti-bullying reporting laws. Under the law, schools are required to report incidents to parents. The Jackson, New Jersey township police department has reinstated the school resource officer program in conjunction…
Safety Law News for 2/20/14
Nearly 4-million dollars has been awarded to 81 Pennsylvania schools and municipalities for the placement of school resource officers and police officers in schools. The introduction in the Arizona legislature of House Bill 2412, which would legalize armed teachers in…
Safety Law News for 2/17/14
The Argyle Independent School District in Texas, is implementing the new School Marshal program created as a result of the passage of House Bill 1009 Protection of Texas Children Act. The program certifies school marshals and expands law enforcement in…
Safety Law News for 2/13/14
Court upholds discipline of a student who broadcasted a string of increasingly violent and threatening instant messages from home to his friends bragging about his weapons, threatening to shoot specific classmates, intimating that he would “take out” other people at…
Safety Law News for 2/7/14
Scotland County, North Carolina officials have agreed to provide school resource officers at every elementary school in the district. Municipal officials in Jackson, New Jersey have taken a step toward reinstating the school resource officer program after unanimously approving a…
Safety Law News for 2/4/14
Wayne County, Michigan Sheriff Barry Virts would like to create a county-wide resource officer program because of the success of the previous program in building relationships with students and teaching classes. The Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board has…
Safety Law News for 1/24/14
Marijuana problems in Colorado schools increase with legalization. More students and younger kids are bringing marijuana to schools. Officials in Kennebunk, Maine consider their school resource officers to be “more than a police presence in our schools.” Indiana State Attorney…