• In Florida, the District Court of Appeal of Florida held that the school resource officer who was on duty during the campus shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School was not immune from the lawsuit filed by parents under…
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Safety Law News for January 10, 2020
• In Ohio, the Wooster City School District is collaborating with the Wooster Police Department to place its officers on district school buses. The goal of the new policy is to provide personal, positive interactions with students and enhance the…
Safety Law News for September 10, 2019
• In Alabama, school officials at Wilson High School in Florence, Alabama are removing the doors to stalls in the student bathroom to discourage students from vaping. The decision to take down the doors comes after a male student was…
Safety Law News for August 22, 2019
• In California, the Sacramento School Board is implementing a new plan that will reduce the number of school resource officers in the district and place them off-campus. The proposal, known as “Reimagine School Safety,” seeks to provide greater mental…
Safety Law News for April 11, 2019
• In New York, the City of Poughkeepsie plans to create a community policing unit and implement a school resource officer program in the schools. The police chief believes that the addition of a school resource officer and a community…
Safety Law News for April 5, 2019
• In Tennessee, the legislature has made Tennessee the first state to fund the placement of a school resource officer in every public school. House Bill 947 and Senate Bill 803 creates a recurring school safety grant fund of $40…
Safety Law News for March 5, 2019
• In Florida, the Clay County Sheriff’s Office is offering to move around funds from the County budget to reduce the financial burden of the school resource officer program on the school board. Last year, the school board announced its…
Safety Law News for February 26, 2019
• In North Carolina, the Boilings Springs Police Department is replacing the Cleveland County Sheriff’s Office in the school resource officer program. School officials said that having local officers on campus, familiar with the community, was making a real difference.…
Safety Law News for February 1, 2019
In Tennessee, officials in Cheatham County schools say vaping and e-cigarettes are a growing problem. 65 citations have been issued so far this school year, up from 20 citations last school year. Officials fear that many of the students are…
Safety Law News for January 29, 2019
In Florida, the United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit, held that the Palm Beach County School Board did not violate the rights of its employees by requiring all applicants for substitute teacher positions to submit to and pass a…