• In California, the Salinas City Elementary School District, for the third time, rejected a school resource officer program. The 4-0 vote, with one abstention, reflects the community’s disapproval of the presence of police on their campuses. One board member…
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Safety Law News for January 17, 2019
In Tennessee, the Carter County Sheriff’s Office will be the first law enforcement agency to use a new technology that detects when a deputy’s ballistic vest is shot or stabbed and sends an alert to the department. Every SRO has…
Safety Law News for September 7, 2018
In Massachusetts, a model memorandum of understanding governing the role of school resource officers in Massachusetts schools was released by the Massachusetts Attorney General, the Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety and Security, and the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and…
Safety Law News For August 1, 2018
In a new national report on school quality and safety, WalletHub ranks all 50 states. School safety — 20 percent of the score — was based on incidents of armed students, bullying, and laws that mandate school resource officers. In…
Safety Law News for March 2, 2018
In Florida, the Hernando County school board voted to add additional officers at schools in response to the Parkland tragedy. Only 13 of their 23 schools had school resource officers. The policy is effective immediately. The officers will be in…
Safety Law News for January 11, 2018
In Ottawa, Canada, Carleton University researchers have released an extensive two-year study of a local School Resource Officer (SRO) program. The research is based on a survey of nearly 1,300 Grade 9 students and 100 interviews with SROs, their bosses,…
Safety Law News for November 21, 2017
In Oregon, the Court of Appeals held that the “school safety exception” to the Oregon Constitution did not permit a police officer to search a non-student, who happened to be at school during a shooting that threatened school children and…
Safety Law News for August 4, 2017
In a national study on safe schools, each state was ranked based on numerous factors. The states with the lowest percentage of injured and threatened students were Massachusetts, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Oklahoma. The jurisdictions with the lowest incidence…
Safety Law News for May 23, 2017
In Georgia, a statewide investigation reports 15 percent of school resource officers in Georgia have troubled pasts. The officers were investigated for things such as excessive force, lying, theft or even sexual misconduct at one of their earlier jobs, but were…
Safety Law News for April 18, 2017
In Massachusetts, the Springfield Public Schools have combined restorative justice principles with the “triad” concept of school-based policing to reduce arrests and suspensions. Arrests have declined 70 percent over a five-year period. Suspensions — in school and out of school…