Tag: school shooting

Safety Law News for 2/4/13

• Milford, CT Mayor favors the SRO model “where the police officers set an example for the students and they act as more of a counselor,” and pledges to provide school resource officers to schools. • Woodstock, VA school resource…

Safety Law News for 1/30/13

7,000 Michigan children complete the Attorney General’s Michigan Cyber Safety Initiative (CSI), a free Internet safety program for students in kindergarten through eighth grade.  Policymakers examine how the design of a school can play a role in school safety.  Connecticut…

Safety Law News for 1/28/13

• Four Tennessee counties rush to add school resource officers to elementary schools. • Idaho school district begin installing gun safes inside each of the high schools and middle schools. School resource officers would keep semi-automatic rifles inside the safes…

Safety Law News for 1/25/13

• 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…

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…