Tag: Florida

Safety Law News for 1/16/14

Topeka, Kansas police interrupt a plan by a 17-year old student to shoot two law enforcement officers and two administrators at Topeka West High School.  A Florida appellate court decision upholds the search of the book bag by a school…

Safety Law News for 12/13/13

A report by the Pennsylvania House Select Committee for School Safety concludes school safety could be improved if teachers wear wireless pendants so they can signal trouble, retired police officers are hired to screen visitors at entrances and students have…

Safety Law News for 12/9/13

The Pennsylvania City of DuBois Police Department has revised a proposal to the DuBois Area School District in an effort to continue the 14-year-old School Resource Officer program. The Georgia Court of Appeals has ruled that a high school student’s…

Safety Law News for 10/31/13

A Fountain County, Indiana man with some mental health issues leads Covington school officials to add two school resource officers. In Volusia County, Florida a high school student thanks school resource officer for stopping him from attacking an assistant principal.…

Safety Law News for 9/5/13

The Clarksville, Arkansas school district is considering its legal options – and a possible appeal to state lawmakers — after the state’s attorney general shot down its plan to arm 20 trained high school teachers to protect students in case…

Safety Law News for 9/3/13

The Clarksville, Arkansas School District plans to arm teachers and staff with concealed guns in classrooms. The Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel, issues in a legal opinion that the state board that licenses private security agencies does not have the…

Safety Law News for 8/23/13

The Hazleton, Pennsylvania Board of Education reversed its previous decision to hire unarmed security guards to monitor the metal detectors and directed administrators to hire armed school resource officers for its eight elementary-middle schools.  The Okaloosa County, Florida School Board…

Safety Law News for 7/22/13

The Columbia Board of Education has voted against a measure that would have allowed two school officials to carry guns on campus.  Instead, the Board would prefer resource officers.  A school resource officer will be working at every one of…

Safety Law News for 7/8/13

Tennessee school systems – with and without with their own resource officers – aren’t showing any interest in a new Tennessee law allowing teachers with police training to carry guns.  The Maine legislature rejected a bill that would have allowed…

Safety Law News for 6/14/13

Indiana Governor Pence signed into law Senate Bill 1 that provides $20 million to schools that want to hire school resource officers. The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled that students must be given Miranda warnings when being interviewed by any administrator…