Florida HB 1097 was approved by the House Judiciary Committee and sent to the full House for a vote to be held later this spring. The legislation authorizes teachers and other school employees to possess firearms in order to fight…
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Safety Law News for 5/20/13
• The Indiana legislature has changed its mind on a provision of Senate Bill 1 that would require schools to have an armed protection officer in the building during school hours. The new language gives schools an annual opportunity to…
Safety Law News for 5/16/13
• The Miami Tribe of Miami, Oklahoma has generously donated funding of $50,000 for a School Resource Officer’s (SRO) salary to help patrol the nine public schools in the school district. • The Indiana legislature amends its safe school proposal…
Safety Law News for 5/1/13
Ridgefield, Connecticut school board considers funding initiatives to improve campus security. One school board member recalls 1983 school shooting when she was a student. Emergency management experts say most schools are ill-prepared for an active shooter scenario and should examine…
Safety Law News for 4/24/13
• Farmington, New Mexico community debates policy on when parents have the right to know details of incidents that place students at risk. • The Board of Supervisors for Plainfield Township, Pennsylvania have implemented a controversial policy calling for all…
Safety Law News for 4/22/13
• More than 200 teachers from Pinellas County, Florida have expressed interest in a free class to learn about carrying a concealed weapon. • The town of Little Ferry, New Jersey, volunteered to reassign school resource officers to the school…
Safety Law News for 4/3/13
• Arizona Senate approved legislation allowing designated teachers, administrators or other employees in rural schools to carry a handgun. The policy applies only to rural schools that have 600 students or fewer, are at least 20 miles and 30 minutes…
Safety Law News for 4/1/13
• A bill that increases the role of school resource officers in Colorado schools was unanimously approved by the state Senate. • Two counties in Alabama seek to amend the Alabama constitution to create funding to pay the costs of…
Safety Law News for 3/27/13
• Brookfield, Connecticut officials have heard the outcry of families desperate to ensure that their children and educators are safe in their schools and increased the budget so the police department can train and assign officers to the high school…
Safety Law News for 3/22/13
• The Phoenix, Arizona mayor introduces a school safety program that would add additional SROs at a cost of less than 50 percent of the traditional school resource officer, and would maintain the same duties. • The Snohomish County, Washington…