• Milford, CT Mayor favors the SRO model “where the police officers set an example for the students and they act as more of a counselor,” and pledges to provide school resource officers to schools. • Woodstock, VA school resource…
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Safety Law News for 1/30/13
7,000 Michigan children complete the Attorney General’s Michigan Cyber Safety Initiative (CSI), a free Internet safety program for students in kindergarten through eighth grade. Policymakers examine how the design of a school can play a role in school safety. Connecticut…
Safety Law News for 1/14/13
• Mississippi Lt. Governor is asking lawmakers to OK $7.5 million to create a grant program to increase the number of law enforcement officers in public schools across the state. • The Indiana Attorney General is putting his support behind…
Safety Law News for 10/10/12
The Tennessee Supreme Court upheld a high school student’s ten day suspension, after the football team captain violated a school rule against recklessly endangering other people. In one hour, a Connecticut SRO’s work ranges from handing out peanuts to visiting…
Safety Law News for 9/17/12
Connecticut educators will not let drug dogs sniff students. They will let the dogs sniff lockers and backpacks when students are not around. After several shootings, including the fatal shooting of a girl, a Connecticut technical school is installing metal…
Safety Law News for 7/20/12
Still illegal: marijuana incidents hold about steady in Indiana, but SROs and judges say that families are more accepting of the drug—and that marijuana abuse is increasingly an intergenerational affair. Early introduction: middle school students chose a name for Jaxx…
Safety Law News for 7/6/12
A Connecticut school district is weighing whether to have drug dogs sniff individual students. Most districts only permit canine searches of objects, a policy that the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education endorses. Massachusetts educators adopted—and then quickly abandoned—voluntary student…
Safety Law News for 6/22/12
A federal judge held that a Georgia school was not responsible for a student’s suicide when he hanged himself. The court found that, even though educators could have done more to prevent bullying against the student, they did respond to…
Safety Law News for 6/1/12
Connecticut educators discuss how to define bullying, even as they acknowledge the perception that, “Anything that happens, it all becomes bullying.” They note the need to distinguish bullying, civil rights violations, and criminal actions. In addition, a video provides details…
School Safety Law News for 4/26/12
A school is not liable for the sexual assault of a nine-year-old girl, even though the man who harmed her checked her out of school six different times without authorization, according to a ruling by the full Fifth Circuit Court…