The Benton-Carroll-Salem, Ohio School District is implementing the ALICE program. The ALICE program — the acronym stands for Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, Evacuate— is a revamped perspective on how students should react if a shooter or dangerous intruder enters their…
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Safety Law News for 9/10/13
The Indiana towns of St. John, Schererville and Dyer have all agreed to share the costs of providing a school resource officer for their schools. Atlanta Police and Atlanta Public Schools launched a year-round partnership with the new school year.…
Safety Law News for 9/5/13
The Clarksville, Arkansas school district is considering its legal options – and a possible appeal to state lawmakers — after the state’s attorney general shot down its plan to arm 20 trained high school teachers to protect students in case…
Safety Law News for 9/3/13
The Clarksville, Arkansas School District plans to arm teachers and staff with concealed guns in classrooms. The Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel, issues in a legal opinion that the state board that licenses private security agencies does not have the…
Safety Law News for 8/29/13
In an effort to deter crime and gang activity, Howard County, Maryland Police have operated this summer a mobile Community Athletic Program, staffed by school resource officers and other youth services officers. The mobile recreation center filled with sports gear,…
Safety Law News for 8/23/13
The Hazleton, Pennsylvania Board of Education reversed its previous decision to hire unarmed security guards to monitor the metal detectors and directed administrators to hire armed school resource officers for its eight elementary-middle schools. The Okaloosa County, Florida School Board…
Safety Law News for 8/20/13
The Jasper County, South Carolina Board of Education filed a lawsuit Monday against the County Council and county auditor to try to restore funding to the school district’s budget and avoid eliminating the school-resource officers program. Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett…
Safety Law News for 8/19/13
The Smyth County, Virginia Board of Supervisors accepted a state grant to help fund two more school resource officers for the public schools. One will be assigned a middle school and the other an elementary school. Dowagiac, Michigan Public Schools…
Safety Law News for 8/12/13
The Cumberland County, Tennessee Board of Education approved its 2013-’14 budget that included funding for the first year of a School Resource Officer program. Missouri Governor Jay Nixon signed into law a bill permitting schools in Missouri to commission local…
School Safety Law News for 8/5/13
• Despite making commitments for more school resource officers earlier this year, Swain County, North Carolina commissioners pulled the plug on its contribution toward two newly hired resource officers and quit contributing to the salary of the existing two resource…