SUFFOLK, Va. Nov 10 2021 A 12-year-old girl has been charged in connection with two fires in October including one at an elementary school in Suffolk. According to a recent press release from Suffolk Fire Marshal, Battalion Chief Chris Cornwell, the 12-year-old has been charged with arson of an occupied dwelling in connection with the fire […]
ITHACA, N.Y. November 9 2021 Police and SWAT units responded to bomb threats at Cornell, Columbia and Brown universities Sunday. Cornell University tweeted its first alert around 2 p.m. telling people to avoid multiple buildings. A few hours later, the school said the bomb threat was ongoing and police were sweeping buildings on campus. […]
Eugene OR Nov 6 2021 A 37-year-old armed man was taken into custody Thursday morning on the University of Oregon campus after he allegedly held two students hostage in Hamilton Hall and set off a fire alarm in the UO Knight Law Center. The man was taken into custody without incident after the hostages were […]
Pomona CA November 5 2021 The Pomona Unified School Board voted unanimously to hire two school resource officers, less than four months after the board had approved a budget that did not include funding for the community school resource officer program. “This is a decision we don’t take lightly,” said board member Adrienne Konigar-Macklin. “I do […]
ROCHESTER, N.Y. November 2 2021 After another violent outbreak in a city school, the teachers union is calling for immediate action to get the most disruptive students out. Teachers are stepping up in trying to create safety solutions for their students. One teacher, who was recently attacked by one of her students, says school support […]
Austin TX October 31 2021 The University of Texas received 1,415 reports from employees of sexual harassment, sexual assault, dating violence or stalking incidents during the last academic year, but only a few were eligible to be investigated. Senate Bill 212, passed in 2019, requires public and private universities to publicly share reports of certain incidents […]
Jacksonville, Florida October 29 2021 – Like many other U.S. employers struggling to fill job openings, Duval County Public Schools (DCPS) are finding it very difficult to hire and then retain its campus police officers. DCPS has 22 officer vacancies – five in secondary schools and 17 in primary schools, reports News4Jax. Of its 93 recent […]
KERN COUNTY, Calif. October 26 2021— Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood said the Kern County Sheriff’s Office has requested to cancel its contracts with school districts where deputies serve as school resource officers due to understaffing. “It’s simple and boils down to the fact that we don’t have staff,” he said. “We don’t have enough […]
Berkley CA October 20 2021 Two men approached a group of students on the Berkeley High School campus Friday morning, flashed a gun and then left, authorities report. The men were “looking for a particular student,” according to an email BHS Principal Juan Raygoza sent to the school community just before 9:20 p.m. Friday, about 13 […]
ALEXANDRIA, Va. October 18 2021— The City of Alexandria’s Council has reversed itself on a controversial decision in May to pull police out of schools, reinstating them as of Monday, Oct. 18. The school system announced Wednesday afternoon that School Resource Officers, known as SROs, will be back in Alexandria City High School and all […]