In Maryland, Montgomery County becomes one of the first jurisdictions in the state to outfit school resource officers with body cameras. Nationally, the video of a school resource officer pulling a female student out of her desk at Spring Valley…
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Safety Law News For October 27, 2015
In Florida, the Manatee County School District will spend almost $1.5 million for a school resource officers program. The program includes at least one SRO at each of the high schools and middle schools with shared coverage of most of…
Safety Law News for September 29, 2015
In Virginia, the Montgomery County Public Schools is ordering police officers not to use their body cameras on school property, no matter what the circumstance until a policy agreement can be worked out. In Massachusetts, students at Worcester high schools…
Safety Law News for September 18, 2015
The United States Court of Appeals has ruled that school officials have qualified immunity when accessing a student’s social-networking account upon receiving information that the student sent threatening online messages to another student, where those remarks concerned school activities and…
Safety Law News for March 10, 2015
In Richmond, Virginia, officials have declared Martin Luther King Middle School a hostile environment for teachers. Last year the school had 1635 disorderly or disruptive behavior offenses. Lack of order and discipline are said by one volunteer to be the…
Safety Law News for February 17, 2015
Five of Idaho’s universities and community colleges have spent more than $1.5 million to beef up security after the law allowing concealed weapons on campuses was approved, and the schools expect total costs to top $3.7 million for the year.…
Safety Law for January 27, 2015
In Colorado, one year after the legalization of marijuana, the number of marijuana-related arrests in Denver public schools has grown by 6 percent. Washington, D.C.-area public school districts utilize more than 30,000 surveillance cameras inside school buildings to monitor school…
Safety Law News for 12/16/14
Orange County, Florida Public Schools, the tenth largest school district in the U.S., has voted to establish its own school police force. The officers will have arrest powers and be allowed to carry weapons on school property. In Pennsylvania, York…
Safety Law News for 6/24/14
Tulsa Public Schools review safety regulations due to rising number of shootings in 2014 across the U.S. The Lynchburg, Virginia City Council approved a plan to reinstate the school resource officer program in the middle schools through city, school, and…
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,…