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.…
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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.…
School Safety Law News for 4/25/12
Educators in Gaylord, Michigan explain what their safety procedures are and why they have made no security changes since the recent Chardon shooting. Michigan Crime Stoppers wants to make it safe for students to give tips to educators, because students…
School Safety Law News for 4/19/12
Every fifth grade student gets a Droid Incredible phone. That is the new policy in Katy, Texas, where educators are counting on a simple approach to control student cell phone use: the phones can access the campus WiFi network, but…