Tag: Chicago

Safety Law News for February 1st, 2021

In Pennsylvania, the United States District Court refused to dismiss a case brought against school officials by parents of a special needs student who experienced a series of violent attacks by fellow students.  The parents asserted a race discrimination claim…

Safety Law News for August 21, 2020.

— In New Mexico, the Court of Appeals of New Mexico ruled that a student’s statements, made when he was thirteen years old, to the assistant principal of his school, were presumptively inadmissible under a state law that provides that,…

Safety Law News for June 9th, 2020

— In Wisconsin, the teachers union for the Madison Metropolitan School District is calling for school resource officers to be removed from schools.  The union released a statement that represents “a shift in our previous position regarding SROs.”  The new…

Safety Law News for June 17, 2019

• In Oregon, schools are battling a growing trend of teens using vapor-based tobacco products, or “vaping” on campuses.  Vaping has become so commonplace among teens; Oregon students and teachers say it happens on campuses and right in the classroom.…

Safety Law News for 8/6/12

In Chicago, boys in an anti-violence mentoring program have demonstrated a 44 percent drop in arrests for violent crimes and as much as a 23 percent increase in graduate rates. Officer Tom Speece, a West Virginia SRO, was honored for…