SEFFNER, Fla. December 8 2019 – The Hillsborough County sheriff says a school resource officer pawned his service weapon and then reported to work with a pellet gun, instead. Sheriff Chad Chronister said the officer, Leroy King, who was assigned to Mango Elementary School, has been arrested. The sheriff said the discovery was made when a […]
Toledo OH December 8 2019 A Whitmer High School student was arrested Thursday after going after another student with a “knife-like object” while in art class. The incident happened about 1:40 p.m. and prompted Washington Local Schools officials to place the high school on lockdown until the student, 14, was apprehended by a school security […]
GREENFIELD, Ind. December 8 2019– School resource officers in Hancock County are giving tickets to underage students caught vaping. It is a new idea the district started to combat this issue. Inside high schools across Indiana, more and more students are picking up this trend. Adam Barton is the principal at Eastern Hancock High School […]
Oshkosh WI December 7 2019 A Wisconsin school resource officer on Tuesday shot and wounded a student who stabbed him during an altercation, police said. It was the second shooting to take place in a high school in the state in two days. The incident occurred shortly after 9 a.m. in the office of the […]
St Louis MN December 7 2019 St. Paul Public Schools is preparing to replace dozens of contract security guards with student-friendly liaisons trained in racial equity and nonviolent intervention. The new positions, called school support liaisons, would be tasked with building relationships with students in hopes of resolving conflicts early and keeping kids in class. The […]
Long Island NY December 7 2019 A high school security guard on Long Island is now under arrest after he is accused of sexually assaulting a student. Police in Nassau County say Daniel Valenzuela, 22, sexually assaulted a 15-year-old student from Sewanhaka High School in Floral Park. School officials tell Eyewitness News the alleged assaults did […]
York County PA December 5 2019 York Suburban School District rejected about $330,000 from the state after its school board voted down a district proposal for a school police officer pilot program. When state officials heard about the district’s plans, they asked the school board to reconsider its decision. “I think their first reaction was, […]
Philadelphia PA December 4 2019 Kevin Bethel built a 30-year career locking people up, rising to become a respected deputy commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department. But that’s not who he is anymore. Last month, Philadelphia School Superintendent William R. Hite Jr. named him special adviser for school safety — essentially the chief of the […]
Cliffside Park, NJ December 4 2019 Police arrested a North Bergen man accused of threatening to shoot up Cliffside Park High School, sending the school into lockdown on Monday morning, officials said. Misael Echevarria, 45, was arrested and charged with false public alarm, terroristic threats and child endangerment for the Monday morning threat that […]
Harrisburg PA December 4 2019 School police officers in Pennsylvania have had their powers to make arrests restored after being inadvertently taken away earlier this year. In the recent flurry of bills that Gov. Tom Wolf signed into law was one that addresses a couple of issues related to school safety officers. Aside from returning […]