RICHMOND VA July 21 2022 — In what federal authorities described as a “monumental betrayal of the public trust,” the former financial aid director at Reynolds Community College was sentenced Tuesday to more than five years in prison for orchestrating a scheme that resulted in the theft of at least $230,850 in federal and state student […]
Grambling LA July 21, 2022 Grambling State University, a historically Black college in northern Louisiana, has announced that it is starting drone patrols on the campus. According to Police Chief Rod Demery, security drones will help his department get a better view of the events on campus. Demery told local media Tuesday he expects drones to […]
Kentucky July 19th, 2022 Among the hundreds of laws passed in the 2022 session of the Kentucky General Assembly that went into effect last week was House Bill 63, a measure requiring a school resource officer, or SRO, in every school in the commonwealth. The law comes three years after the School Safety and Resiliency Act, […]
Mobile AL July 15 2022 Alabama’s largest public school system is looking at ways to beef up security, from creating its own public safety division to adding more than six times the current number of school resource officers to arming the dozen officers that already patrol the halls in Mobile County Public Schools. An update […]
Gresham OR July 15th 2022 Three metro area school districts may not have school resource officers this coming fall because of a staff shortage at the Gresham Police Department. The school districts that will be affected are Centennial, Gresham-Barlow and Reynolds. The City of Gresham said it needs to send officers who are currently in the School […]
Birmingham AL July 13 2022 Former Lansing Police Department Chief Daryl Green has been named the newest chief of police at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Green — who served as LPD chief for just under two years — retired from the department last year before joining Michigan State University. He will serve as […]
TEMPE, Ariz. July 10 2022 – Board members of the Tempe Union High School District voted to phase out school resource officers (SROs) on during a late night meeting on Wednesday. After hearing from former law enforcement, students and parents during public comment, the board made the controversial 3-2 decision to get rid of all […]
Cache County UT July 7 2022 A man suspected of lewdness and placing “pornographic” images on vehicles parked at Utah State University was arrested Sunday, according to authorities. Anderson Bectemba Barnes, 44, was booked into the Cache County Jail on suspicion of third-degree possession of a firearm by a restricted person as well as misdemeanor […]
Harrisburg PA July 3rd, 2022 A bill meant to ease the hiring of campus police officers by the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education has passed the state House and was referred Wednesday to the state Senate Law and Justice Committee. On Monday state representatives voted 200-0 to approve House Bill 1988, which would place campus […]
CARY, N.C. June 23 2022 Wake County School Board members requested a district-wide security assessment long before Uvalde, but the school massacre in Texas was certainly top of mind tonight as the board heard an overview of the assessment and voted on whether to keep police officers in the county schools. With the horror of […]