– In New York, the Supreme Court, Appellate Division affirmed the refusal by the lower court to dismiss a case brought by parents of a child who was injured during the school recess period. The court, ruled that “(s)chools are…
Tag: campus security
Safety Law News for May 8, 2018
In New York, the mayor and the police chief of the City of Syracuse say sworn school resource officers will stay in Syracuse schools. The announcement came in response to a request from the city’s police union to remove the…
Safety Law News for April 6, 2015
In Florida, Miami-Dade school officials hold a press conference to provide details on how campuses are kept safe. This comes after a 15-year-old student was stabbed at Miami Killian Senior High School by a 17-year-old student. In Texas, the decision…
Safety Law News for 10/29/14
The Missouri legislature voted to override Gov. Nixon’s veto of a law that would allow school districts to designate teachers or administrators to have guns in school as school safety officers. But school administrators and superintendents are refusing to allow…
Safety Law News for 7/28/14
The Board of Education of the San Francisco Unified School District has approved a memorandum of understanding with city police that identifies procedures for school resource officers to respond to campus incidents. The agreement increases communication among students, families, school…
Safety Law News for 7/23/14
New York State Senator Patrick Gallivan, has taken direct action to put school resource officers in all schools in the state’s 59th Senate District. The New York budget has allocated nearly $2 million to implement a program developed by Gallivan…
Safety Law News for 7/7/14
The New York Court of Appeals has invalidated a cyberbullying law that punished any form of electronic communication – including any off-campus activities that “foreseeably create a risk of substantial disruption within the school environment, where it is foreseeable that the conduct,…
Safety Law News for 6/2/14
Oklahoma City Public Schools plans to expand the school resource officer program to add SROs for the elementary schools. School resource officers, in Gainesville, Georgia have access to all of the security cameras inside Gainesville City Schools. The cameras are…
Safety Law News for 8/19/13
The Smyth County, Virginia Board of Supervisors accepted a state grant to help fund two more school resource officers for the public schools. One will be assigned a middle school and the other an elementary school. Dowagiac, Michigan Public Schools…
School Safety Law News for 8/5/13
• Despite making commitments for more school resource officers earlier this year, Swain County, North Carolina commissioners pulled the plug on its contribution toward two newly hired resource officers and quit contributing to the salary of the existing two resource…