— In Massachusetts, the United States District Court refused to apply immunity to educators in a case brought by parents of a child who committed suicide after relentless bullying by fellow students. The court refused to dismiss claims based upon…
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Safety Law News for November 5, 2021
— In California, the California Court of Appeal held that a school was not liable for the death by suicide of a high school student. The parents argued that liability should be the direct result of persistent bullying by fellow…
Safety Law News for May 17, 2017
In Georgia, the Georgia Supreme Court upheld the state terroristic threats statute that had been challenged by a Hall County high school student who was criminally charged with posting terroristic threats on Facebook to “get the chopper out and make…
Safety Law News for October 12, 2016
In Rhode Island, officials in Portsmouth received a $250,000 grant from the U.S. Justice Department for school resource officers. The funds will go toward two school resource officers. In Indiana, an incident in the Bartholomew Consolidated School district is being…
Safety Law News for 4/7/14
Colquitt County, Georgia educators and law enforcement conduct campus sweeps for drugs several times each school year, using dogs to check out lockers and cars at the schools. Baltimore County, Maryland officials unveiled a $3.7 million in school security system,…
Safety Law News for 11/6/13
Fremont County, Wyoming Board of Cooperative Education Services is providing leadership for a partnership between local agencies to improve cooperation, training, and crisis planning to improve the safety of students and security in area schools. Sequim, Washington’s four schools will…
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 7/11/13
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine released recommendations from his school-safety task force of law enforcement, educators, mental health officials, firefighters and clergy. The task force called for schools to provide detailed floor plans for law enforcement, and calls on state…
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 7/24/12
After two student suicides, Florida educators say that they stop bullying in its earliest stages, while families suggest that the schools are actually rife with peer-on-peer harassment. A 17-year-old student says in a formal letter that the day before canine drug…