Tag: Maine

Safety Law News for February 10, 2015

In Arizona, a recent study found that more than 80 percent of playgrounds in Tucson’s largest school district have dangerous conditions. This comes after the school district’s settlement offer to pay $175,000 to the family of a student injured at school,…

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 3/17/14

The American Civil Liberties Union is calling on the Texas Education Agency to ban the use of Tasers by school resource officers.  The FBI has opened an investigation about unreasonable use of force involving Tasers after a Cedar Creek, Texas…

Safety Law News for 1/24/14

Marijuana problems in Colorado schools increase with legalization.  More students and younger kids are bringing marijuana to schools.  Officials in Kennebunk, Maine consider their school resource officers to be “more than a police presence in our schools.”  Indiana State Attorney…

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 6/1/12

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…