• Going against a recommendation by schools Superintendent, a Maryland Board of Education votes to use state funding to pay for school security personnel and equipment, along with mental health services. • Tennessee teachers Union does not want teachers armed…
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Safety Law News for 1/22/13
• Parents in Minnesota meet to discuss how to get the School District to consider upgrades to security in the public schools. • Pennsylvania legislature introduces School Resource Officer Bill 196, which calls for funding for school resource officers in…
Safety Law News for 1/14/13
• Mississippi Lt. Governor is asking lawmakers to OK $7.5 million to create a grant program to increase the number of law enforcement officers in public schools across the state. • The Indiana Attorney General is putting his support behind…
Safety Law News for 12/17/12
• Drug detection dogs that have routinely been used in Michigan high schools are being brought into middle schools by administrators who say they want to send a message to the younger students. • District of Columbia schools are being…
Safety Law News for 12/3/12
California School Resource Officers used the element of surprise to apprehend a High School student who brought a gun to school. Missouri school district implements innovative ways to stop bullying. Florida school district called out after two student deaths: “be…
Safety Law News for 11/12/12
Relationships with students are the priority: an open letter from the superintendent of Stillwater Public Schools in Oklahoma, where an eighth grade student died from a self-inflicted gun wound at school on September 26. Many Texas teachers are cutting back…
Safety Law News for 10/5/12
In-school suspensions are replacing other forms of discipline in a Louisiana school district, as educators say that home is often the source of students’ problems. Local police question whether the discipline is strict enough. A Maryland student said he would…
Safety Law News for 9/17/12
Connecticut educators will not let drug dogs sniff students. They will let the dogs sniff lockers and backpacks when students are not around. After several shootings, including the fatal shooting of a girl, a Connecticut technical school is installing metal…
Safety Law News for 9/12/12
When a California student became the target of the “Kill Katie Klub,” educators apparently decided not to act and SROs did act. It was his twelfth day on the job: an Illinois teacher tackled and subdued a student who fired…
Safety Law News for 6/22/12
A federal judge held that a Georgia school was not responsible for a student’s suicide when he hanged himself. The court found that, even though educators could have done more to prevent bullying against the student, they did respond to…