Tag: school bus

Safety Law News for May 28, 2021

In North Carolina, the Court of Appeals of North Carolina ruled that a 13-year-old student was in custody and therefore entitled to Miranda warnings prior to being interrogated by a school principal accompanied by a school resource officer who remained…

Safety Law News for November 6, 2018

In Pennsylvania, the Tamaqua Area School Board unanimously approved a policy that would allow teachers, administrators and other staff to carry a firearm in school.  Tamaqua has never had a uniformed officer. School officials believe arming staff is a better…

Safety Law News for July 17, 2015

In New York, the NYPD is eliminating its school unit patrol – a specific unit trained to deal with school emergencies and other issues that arise – and will instead rely on the officers assigned to respective neighborhood beats to…

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 10/7/13

Officials in Ohio with the Nelsonville-York City School District are determined to have a school resource officer, but school board members have decided to drop the proposed contract with the Athens County Sheriff’s office and to arrange for an SRO…

Safety Law News for 10/15/12

On school buses, surveillance cameras capture everything from intoxicated drivers to student fights, and the cameras appear to have the support of everyone from union representatives to parents. Oakland Unified School District has voted to accept federal monitoring in at…