• The East Contra Costa, California school district want to keep its school resource officer program to avoid isolation and long emergency response times of at least 10 minutes. • The Ohio legislature introduces Senate Bill 74, which would allow…
Tag: Ohio
Safety Law News for 3/15/13
• Brimfield Township, Ohio school resource officers are proactively taking steps to keep students safer and calmer in an emergency by spearheading a campaign called “Go Bucket.” • Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot crossed political party lines to announce backing legislation…
Safety Law News 2/13/13
After a massive public protest, Moorestown, New Jersey, officials halt the reassignment of a school resource officer. Police and township officials said privately that they were astonished at the groundswell of support for the SRO. After a middle school student…
Safety Law News for 11/15/12
A Memphis high school newspaper describes a gang awareness assembly that resonated with students, despite their initial apathy toward the speaker. A high school principal in Massachusetts, who is often asked how parents should be involved in their children’s lives,…
Safety Law News for 9/28/12
An undercover police officer, who spent nearly two years as a “student” at a Houston high school, talks about the drug culture. Elementary students in Arkansas are undergoing training to become young emergency responders in the event of a crisis.…
Safety Law News for 9/7/12
Missouri educators respond to fight videos posted online by their students. A lawsuit against Birmingham Police Department, for using pepper spray in schools, is now a class action lawsuit. The Ohio teenager who was charged with inducing panic, because of…
Safety Law News for 9/4/12
High schoolers say that guns and fights are normal to them, during a focus group in Washington state, and they discuss possible solutions. Extra security is posted at Florida’s Palm Beach Gardens High School, after a weekend shooting that left…
Safety Law News for 8/17/12
• A 17-year-old Ohio high school student admits to being a drug “czar” with six lieutenants – all operating on the school campus selling pot to students. • Troy, Michigan educators’ sexting policy gives notice to students that in any…
Safety Law News for 7/6/12
A Connecticut school district is weighing whether to have drug dogs sniff individual students. Most districts only permit canine searches of objects, a policy that the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education endorses. Massachusetts educators adopted—and then quickly abandoned—voluntary student…
School Safety Law News for 5/24/12
Two Ohio elementary school students are facing criminal charges after one of them brought a loaded gun to school on Thursday. Both of them tried to hide it, but got caught. Georgia school police use Facebook to keep schools safe.…