KANSAS CITY, MO May 22 2021 The Kansas City Council has stripped the police of more than $44 million dollars in their upcoming budget. Thursday evening, The City Council of Kansas City swiftly approved two ordinances that reallocate a portion of the police department’s budget to a new fund. The council’s approval came just hours […]
POUND, Va. May 21 2021 The Town of Pound removed its chief of police and terminated all other police officers. According to a petition filed by Commonwealth’s Attorney Chuck Slemp, town officials formally voted on May 18 to terminate “every officer in its police department. The petition states that while the town’s charter grants the town […]
Washington DC May 19 2021 Starting in June, D.C. police will not be the first responders to some mental health calls in the city. Under a new pilot program, 911 operators will instead send unarmed teams of behavioral health experts and peers to the scene. The move was recommended last month by the city’s police reform […]
San Francisco, California May 17 2021— The San Francisco Department of Public Health (DPH) on May 4 presented a plan to the Health Commission to reduce the number of sheriff’s deputies who guard public hospitals and clinics in San Francisco, and instead rely on additional psychiatric nurses and mental health professionals to handle crises. About […]
Alexandria VA May 17 2021 The city of Alexandria will pull all police officers from public school hallways, ending a program that began nearly three decades ago following a narrow and contentious vote by the city council earlier this month. The council voted 4-to-3 on May 3 to reallocate nearly $800,000 used for the School Resource Officer […]
Montgomery County MD May 15 2021 The Montgomery County Council unanimously approved a police budget on Thursday that continues to fund the positions of 23 police officers who previously worked as school resource officers — but with the understanding that County Executive Marc Elrich will work with the county’s public schools to assign those officers to […]
Montgomery County MD May 13 2021 There will be no police stationed in Montgomery County schools when the next academic year begins, the district’s school board confirmed on Tuesday. Instead, planning is underway on an alternate program to provide “adequate local law enforcement coverage,” as required by state law. The school board on Tuesday reviewed a […]
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, Md. May 12 2021— The Prince George’s County school district will begin reducing the number of school investigators in July. This comes after a recommendation by the county’s Police Reform Task Force was accepted by the CEO of Prince George’s County Public Schools. “There is no change in the status of School […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio March 9 2021— A majority of those who participated in a study commissioned by the City of Columbus believe that social service and mental health professionals could respond to many of the non-violent 911 calls routinely handled by police. That conclusion was among the findings presented Tuesday night by a public-relations firm hired by […]
La Crosse WI Dec 24 2020 The School District of La Crosse Board of Education voted to phase police out of its schools, after months of investigating the program found it negatively impacted marginalized students in the district. Police officers will no longer be regularly in school buildings, and the district will begin reducing the […]