• In Texas, the Huffman ISD Board of Trustees approved the creation of the Huffman ISD Police Department, starting in the 2020-2021 school year. The Superintendent and the Board believe that creating a police department “will give us the opportunity…
Tag: school resource officer
Safety Law News for March 27, 2020
• In Florida, officials from the Clay County School District have issued a report on its three-year experiment with a school district police force. The details include an improvement in the school climate and a 79% decrease in school arrests. …
Safety Law News March 23, 2020
• In Kentucky, the Governor signed into law Senate Bill 8, requiring all Kentucky school districts to arm their school resource officers. • In Georgia, United States Court of Appeals ruled that a school resource officer’s conduct, including placing a…
Safety Law News for March 11, 2020
• In California, state officials are acknowledging that the 30-year drop in juvenile arrests is making it necessary to lower funding for juvenile halls and camps that are no longer needed. In California, the number of juvenile arrests dropped even…
Safety Law News for February 24, 2020
• In Kentucky, the Governor signed into law the school safety bill that will require school resource officers to be armed. The law goes into effect immediately. (Senate Bill 8) • In New Jersey, the United States District Court refused…
Safety Law News for January 15, 2020
• In Kentucky, the legislature has introduced a bill that would require school resource officers in Kentucky to carry guns. Senate Bill 8 would require that all schools have at least one armed SRO and one mental health counselor for…
Safety Law News for October 15, 2019
• In North Carolina, the North Carolina Supreme Court ruled that a student was properly adjudicated for disorderly conduct after throwing a chair toward another student in the school’s cafeteria, running away, refusing to cooperate with the school resource officer,…
Safety Law News for August 27, 2019
• In California, the California Court of Appeal upheld the adjudication of a juvenile for making a criminal threat. The court ruled that the student’s conduct preceded his threat such that the circumstances surrounding his statements, and his history at…
Safety Law News for June 19, 2019
• In Nebraska, to combat vaping, officials in the Fairbury Public School District will begin randomly testing students for nicotine. Educators noticed an alarming increase in students sneaking puffs of e-cigarettes: in locker rooms, restrooms and elsewhere on school grounds. …
Safety Law News for June 17, 2019
• In Oregon, schools are battling a growing trend of teens using vapor-based tobacco products, or “vaping” on campuses. Vaping has become so commonplace among teens; Oregon students and teachers say it happens on campuses and right in the classroom.…