Tag: school safety

Safety Law News for 7/23/14

New York State Senator Patrick Gallivan, has taken direct action to put school resource officers in all schools in the state’s 59th Senate District.  The New York budget has allocated nearly $2 million to implement a program developed by Gallivan…

Safety Law News for 7/18/14

Champaign, Illinois announces its “proven track record” of keeping schools safe — with the statistics to prove it.  The school superintendent is convinced and therefore, will recommend that the school board renew the SRO program.  In Marshfield, Massachusetts, a citizens…

Safety Law News for 7/11/14

A state legislature joint committee in Arizona approved funding for 118 school safety resource officers on campuses around the state. The School Safety Program Oversight Committee agreed to spend nearly $12 million on the program for the upcoming school year.…

Safety Law News for 7/7/14

The New York Court of Appeals has invalidated a cyberbullying law that punished any form of electronic communication – including any off-campus activities that “foreseeably create a risk of substantial disruption within the school environment, where it is foreseeable that the conduct,…

Safety Law News for 7/2/14

Colorado officials report that marijuana is a significantly growing problem in schools, accounting for 32 percent of all expulsions.  The Jackson-Madison County, Tennessee school system will have a full complement of resource officers next school year thanks to an agreement…

Safety Law News for 6/27/14

In an opinion by the U.S. Supreme Court, the justices unanimously ruled that law enforcement officials cannot harvest the contents of a cell phone under the “search incident to arrest” exception to the warrant requirement of the Fourth Amendment. Statistics…

Safety Law News for 6/24/14

Tulsa Public Schools review safety regulations due to rising number of shootings in 2014 across the U.S.  The Lynchburg, Virginia City Council approved a plan to reinstate the school resource officer program in the middle schools through city, school, and…

Safety Law News for 6/13/14

Middletown, Connecticut officials from the school district and the police department have signed a “Right Response” agreement that looks to allow for better discretion from administrators and school resource officers on how to handle behavioral problems. Five sheriff’s deputies will…

Safety Law News for 6/2/14

Oklahoma City Public Schools plans to expand the school resource officer program to add SROs for the elementary schools. School resource officers, in Gainesville, Georgia have access to all of the security cameras inside Gainesville City Schools.  The cameras are…

Safety Law News for 5/27/14

The Florida Court of Appeals has upheld a jury verdict that found a school board negligent for failing to discipline a student with an extensive disciplinary history. [Duval County School Bd. v. Buchanan ex rel. Cox]  The U.S. Department of Justice…