In North Carolina, the Wake County Public School System unveiled new safety procedures that are designed to keep students safe while getting on and off school buses. In Maine, two Brunswick schools are found to be unsafe by failing to…
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Safety Law News for July 1, 2015
In North Carolina, the Wake County Public School System unveiled new safety procedures that are designed to keep students safe while getting on and off school buses. In Maine, two Brunswick schools are found to be unsafe by failing to…
Safety Law News for May 14, 2015
In Arkansas, the Governor has sign into law HB 1583, legislation that extends the jurisdiction of a school resource officer. Now the SRO will have statewide jurisdiction when accompanying students on a school sanctioned event that takes place outside the…
Safety Law News for March 5, 2015
In Rowan County, North Carolina, the average rate of crime or violence per 100 students in public schools is the lowest the rate recorded since 2010. School officials are attributing the safe climate to having a school resource officer on…
Safety Law News for February 20, 2015
In North Carolina, an annual study consistently finds that wealthier counties are able to spend more on the needs of schools because of the manner in which the state distributes funding. The study concludes that students living in poorer counties…
Safety Law for January 27, 2015
In Colorado, one year after the legalization of marijuana, the number of marijuana-related arrests in Denver public schools has grown by 6 percent. Washington, D.C.-area public school districts utilize more than 30,000 surveillance cameras inside school buildings to monitor school…
Safety Law News for 11/21/14
A School Safety Task Force will recommend that South Carolina schools practice more safety lock-down drills and have more School Resource Officers and more school psychologists. Police and school officials in Providence, Rhode Island have signed an inter-agency agreement on a…
Safety Law News for 10/29/14
The Missouri legislature voted to override Gov. Nixon’s veto of a law that would allow school districts to designate teachers or administrators to have guns in school as school safety officers. But school administrators and superintendents are refusing to allow…
Safety Law News for 9/26/14
In Omaha, Nebraska, associate school resource officers are part-time employees who are retired from the police force. They work as sworn officers in public schools, but now they’re seeing their hours slashed because of provisions of the federal Affordable Health…
Safety Law News for 8/26/14
In North Carolina, two Charlotte Mecklenburg schools that had School Resource Officers (SRO’s) last year will not have them this year. Those officers will be transferred to schools that are more troubled. School resource officers in Henry County, Tennessee…