LOUISVILLE, Ky. Aug 20 2021 While the mask mandate in JCPS schools has been hotly debated, there’s another major safety issue one former teacher says is being ignored. It was August 2019 when three votes did away with armed school resources officers at all JCPS schools. Now that class is back in session, some are asking […]
SAN JOSE CA Aug 17 2021— A few weeks after a milestone board vote ended the routine presence of police officers at campuses in the South Bay’s largest school district, the same board has unanimously voted to allow those same officers to moonlight as security for large after-school events. The decision was met with immediate […]
Albuquerque, New Mexico August 14 2021 One student was killed by another in a shooting at a middle school in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Friday. The shooting took place at about 12:45 p.m. local time between two male students during a lunch break outside Washington Middle School. Friday was just the third day of classes […]
Providence RI Aug 12 2021 Brown University has systematically and repeatedly failed to protect women from rape and other sexual misconduct, according to a federal class action lawsuit filed recently by four current and former female students. The suit, which was filed last Friday in Providence federal court, alleges the Ivy League school in Rhode […]
Palm Springs CA Aug 9 2021 Palm Springs Unified School District said there will continue to be security officers, however, School Resource Officers will not be there for the start of the school year. They may be added as the school year goes on. The district held a public board meeting about the issue on […]
GREENVILLE, N.C. Aug 4 2021— A man is accused of setting fire to a police SUV at East Carolina University. According to campus police, 20-year-old Fernando Daniel Laurens was arrested Tuesday and charged with resisting, delaying and obstructing a police officer and three counts of felony arson to personal property. Laurens is not an ECU […]
Chicago IL July 23 2021 More than 30 Chicago high schools have voted to redirect money spent on uniformed police officers to alternative behavioral and mental health supports a year after intense student-led protests put a microscope on the role of cops in public schools. The moves shift about $2 million from policing to restorative justice […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. July 23 2021 Montgomery police have charged a 17-year-old in connection to a recent homicide investigation. Daiyon El-Amin, 17, is charged with capital murder in the shooting death of 17-year-old Leiah Holmes. Leiah was a rising senior at Alabama Christian Academy before she was fatally shot on July 12. At a school vigil, her […]
South San Francisco CA July 22 2021 Community calls for South San Francisco Unified School District officials to formally end its relationship with the city’s police department were answered last week when trustees supported a suspension of its school resource officer program. “Until and unless we get an agreement that will support and defend our students […]
EAST CANTON OH July 20 2021 – Osnaburg Local School District officials are breaking with the village Police Department for school resource officer services and will have that duty provided by the Stark County Sheriff’s Office. The change takes effect with the upcoming 2021-22 academic year. “I really didn’t get a good explanation,” East Canton Chief […]