Tennessee school systems – with and without with their own resource officers – aren’t showing any interest in a new Tennessee law allowing teachers with police training to carry guns. The Maine legislature rejected a bill that would have allowed…
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Safety Law News for 6/24/13
A smartphone app for sending photos that disappear within seconds is causing concern for educators and school resource officers who work in schools. Butler County, Ohio Sheriff declares that he “won’t support a school levy again that doesn’t address school…
Safety Law News for 5/28/13
• School administrators in Henderson County, Kentucky reflects on the success of the Safe Schools Initiative at Henderson County Schools started in the mid-1990s. Since that time, educators have embraced working with law enforcement officials for preventive measures rather than…
Safety Law News for 5/22/13
Florida HB 1097 was approved by the House Judiciary Committee and sent to the full House for a vote to be held later this spring. The legislation authorizes teachers and other school employees to possess firearms in order to fight…
Safety Law News for 5/16/13
• The Miami Tribe of Miami, Oklahoma has generously donated funding of $50,000 for a School Resource Officer’s (SRO) salary to help patrol the nine public schools in the school district. • The Indiana legislature amends its safe school proposal…
Safety Law News for 3/8/13
A survey by the North Carolina School Boards Association reveals that 82.7 percent of North Carolina high schools and 74.7 percent of middle schools have a school resource officer, while only 3.6 percent of elementary schools do. Highland, New York…
Safety Law News for 2/20/13
• Gadsden, Alabama officials seek to hire retired law enforcement officers for school resource officer positions at the city’s 13 school campuses. The City Council approved a proposal to allow the retired officers to serve. • Under HB 0860, legislation,…
Safety Law News 2/13/13
After a massive public protest, Moorestown, New Jersey, officials halt the reassignment of a school resource officer. Police and township officials said privately that they were astonished at the groundswell of support for the SRO. After a middle school student…
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…