San Jose CA June 27 2021 After nearly a yearlong debate, San Jose education leaders are booting police officers from San Jose Unified School District campuses—at least for the next school year. The school board Thursday considered a contract between the district and the San Jose Police Department, along with a resolution to limit police […]
ST LOUIS MO June 26 2021– A man is dead after a Saint Louis University security officer saw him holding two firearms early Friday morning on Locust Street. The commander of the Homicide Unit Lt. Scott Aubuchon said the SLU security officer encountered the man at 3301 Locust Street at 12:31 a.m. Aubuchon said at […]
Minneapolis MN June 26 2021 University of Minnesota President Joan Gabel has announced in an email to students and faculty that university police will be deployed to patrol nearby neighborhoods that are not part of campus and will assist with calls that the Minneapolis police are too short-staffed to respond to. Citing “shared concern and frustration” […]
Alexandria VA June 24 2021 The two police officers, pistols on their belts and thumbs hooked through the straps of their bulletproof vests, watched as a handful of masked teenagers stumbled, slowly and sleepily, from the bus. It was 8:07 a.m. on a sticky Wednesday in June, nearly time for the start of classes at T.C. […]
NORWOOD PARK IL June 18 2021 — Taft High School’s local school council voted Wednesday to approve its Whole School Safety Plan, which calls on the school to keep its four on-campus police officers while hiring an additional social worker and security guard. The 8-3 vote marks the second time the council voted to keep its […]
Fresno CA June 18 2021 A nearly yearlong community debate over police in the city’s public schools ended Wednesday when the Fresno Unified school board voted to keep armed police officers on campus over the objections of community groups that pushed the district to end its relationship with law enforcement. Before Wednesday’s vote, Fresno Police […]
STARKVILLE, Miss. June 17 2021 The Mississippi State University Police Department announced at the beginning of June that they are looking for more officers to patrol the campus ahead of a school year with more people out and about. That includes openings for brand new Campus Security Officers. “Being short officers puts more stress on the […]
Loudon County VA June 17 2021 The School Board, Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office and the Leesburg Police Department on Monday night worked out a new Memorandum of Understanding for the School Resource Officer program. The current agreement is from 2015. A recent Virginia state law requires that a new document be implemented every two years. […]
PORTLAND OR June 14 2021 Portland State University announced Friday it will keep their campus security officers unarmed moving forward. In a statement on PSU’s website, President Stephen Percy said Campus Public Safety Chief Willie Halliburton has committed to beginning unarmed campus patrols no later than Sept. 1, before the start of the fall term. “I […]
LAS VEGAS NV June 12 2021— A former middle school security monitor in Las Vegas is behind bars on one count of attempted luring of a child and one count of unlawful contact with a minor. The Clark County School District Police Department arrested 28-year-old Andre Fleming on Wednesday. He was booked into the Clark […]