A state legislature joint committee in Arizona approved funding for 118 school safety resource officers on campuses around the state. The School Safety Program Oversight Committee agreed to spend nearly $12 million on the program for the upcoming school year.…
Tag: Georgia
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 4/7/14
Colquitt County, Georgia educators and law enforcement conduct campus sweeps for drugs several times each school year, using dogs to check out lockers and cars at the schools. Baltimore County, Maryland officials unveiled a $3.7 million in school security system,…
Safety Law News for 3/31/14
A school resource officer in Jonesboro, Georgia discovers a loaded handgun while assisting educators in enforcing the code of conduct. The chief of police says simply, “Officer did what he was trained to do.” U.S. Department of Justice complaint brought…
Safety Law News for 3/11/14
The Colorado House Judiciary Committee defeated HB 14-1157 on a 7 – 4 party line vote. The legislation would authorize school boards to develop policies that would allow employees to carry a concealed weapons on school grounds, if they hold a valid…
Safety Law News for 3/4/14
The Georgetown County, South Carolina School District has hired a former judge, former policeman and former school resource officer to take over its newly-expanded role as head of security. The School Board of Highlands County, Florida is updating its bullying…
Safety Law News for 1/9/14
The Gainesville, Georgia school board has approved a policy allowing some resource officers to carry long-range rifles in each of the city’s high schools and middle schools. Berkeley County, South Carolina schools conduct audit of school safety after officials in…
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 10/22/13
Officials in Buncombe County, North Carolina high schools have filed 242 incident reports dating back to last school year. Reports of violent crimes — such as simple assaults, fighting and certain disorderly conduct charges — account for 25 percent of…
Safety Law News for 10/2/13
Police in Gainesville, Georgia, are asking the school board to accept a proposal that would allow school resource officers to store assault rifles in the schools while on duty. A school resource officer is forced to resign after incorrectly believing…