AUSTIN TX Sept 19 2018 — DPS troopers are teaming up with Texas School for the Deaf to make its 67-acre campus safer. Until this year, the 50 building school, which serves 600 students from Pre-K to age 22, only had staff members trained as security personnel. Those security employees are not peace officers, nor are […]
PHOENIX AZ Sept 19 2018 — Security camera systems are an easy way to monitor large school campuses. SSI sister publication Campus Safety found that nine out of 10 schools are using such solutions. However, they don’t necessarily make students feel any safer. A study conducted by Sarah Lindstrom Johnson, an assistant professor at Arizona State […]
DECATUR IL Sept 19 2018 — Richland Community College leaders are hopeful that a new campus police force can be up and running by the end of this year. The Public Safety Department, which was unanimously approved during Tuesday night’s meeting of the college’s board of trustees, will allow Richland to have its own officers […]
SHAMONG NJ Sept 18 2018 — The Lenape Board of Education publicly recognized four security personnel at its Sept. 12 meeting, whose response led to the arrest of an individual who tried to enter Cherokee High School on the first day of school but had no connection to the institution. “The safety and security of our […]
Rapid City SD Sept 17 2018 As students waft sage into their faces during a morning ceremony to start the Friday school day at Wolf Creek Middle, Superintendent Anthony Fairbanks recalls the day thirteen years earlier when violence last visited a school he knew well. “That was just a normal, typical day. Who would’ve known?” […]
PASCO, Wash. Sept 16 2018 – Police say two men who used to work at Chiawana High School in Pasco have been investigated for having an alleged sexual relationship with a student. Pasco police and the Pasco School District investigated these allegations which resulted in the arrest of former security guard, Darrell Thomas Palomo, 34. Palomo […]
Columbus OH Sept 16 2018 Some Ohio State University security officers will vote this month on whether to be represented by the Fraternal Order of Police, Ohio Labor Council Inc. A three-page letter sent from Ohio State Public Safety Director Monica Moll, obtained by The Dispatch, informed Central Campus Security Services staff members of the union […]
OROVILLE CA Sept 15 2018 — The Oroville Police Department is enlisting some four-legged assistance to keep Oroville school campuses drug free. Frankie, an 8-month-old black Labrador retriever, was destined to be a police dog as he was bred for it. Once his training is complete, he will join school resource officers to patrol Oroville schools, […]
CROSSVILLE, Tenn. Sept 15 2018— Authorities said a man and woman are dead and the suspect was wounded in a shooting Friday in the parking lot of the Cumberland County school bus garage. Officers responded around 2:27 p.m. CDT to the garage at 1668 Genesis Road in Crossville. Two men and a woman were found […]
MESA, AZ Sept 14 2018 – Police are crediting diligent students, parents, and staff with helping to identify two social media threats made against Mesa schools on Thursday. Mesa police said the first incident was reported at Liberty Charter School, after a student posted pictures on Instagram showing a weapon and saying she was going to […]