Miami-Dade FL May 13 2021 With a backpack slung over her shoulders, a painting under one arm and a skateboard under the other, a woman wandered the halls of a Miami-Dade high school on Monday, distributing fliers with her social media handle to students, prosecutors said. But Audrey Francisquini was not actually a student at […]
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, Md. May 12 2021— The Prince George’s County school district will begin reducing the number of school investigators in July. This comes after a recommendation by the county’s Police Reform Task Force was accepted by the CEO of Prince George’s County Public Schools. “There is no change in the status of School […]
Boulder CO May 12 2021 Students who receive University of Colorado Police Department (CUPD) tickets for lower-level offenses or first-time infractions have traditionally faced a potentially long road to get past their mistakes. But that will soon change thanks to a new program the department will roll out in May. Compared to a traditional criminal summons […]
Newark OH May 12 2021 Last week, a communication error on the campus of Ohio State University at Newark in Newark, Ohio, led to a student and a research staff member seeing guns pointed in their direction as they were unaware that they were in the middle of a scheduled police training exercise and that the […]
Charlottesville VA May 11 2021 Nearly a year after voting to remove school resource officers from buildings, the Charlottesville School Board will hear details this coming week about a new path forward. That new path could include hiring care and safety assistants who would monitor hallways and and build relationships with students, as well as […]
Rigby, Idaho May 8 2021 A sixth-grade girl brought a gun to her Idaho middle school, shot and wounded two students and a custodian and then was disarmed by a teacher Thursday, authorities said. The three victims were shot in their limbs and expected to survive, officials said at a news conference. Jefferson County Sheriff Steve […]
Palatine, IL May 6 2021 The Palatine Police Department is expected to begin responding to overnight calls from Harper College later this year or early next year. The village council gave its consent Monday night to an intergovernmental agreement with the college that will allow village police to respond to calls from 11 p.m. to […]
Minneapolis MN May 1 2021 Long-simmering tensions between University of Minnesota student activists and campus police have reached a boiling point, with student leaders calling for the chief to resign and a state police association stepping in to defend officers from criticism it deems unwarranted. In a letter to administrators last week, student government leaders demanded […]
TUCSON, Ariz. April 30 2021 Robots are turning up everywhere in modern life. Now one has turned up in the police department for Pima Community College. We’re used to the idea of police using robots for dangerous work like dealing with bombs but police at Pima Community College have an egg shaped robot rolling around PCC […]
EUGENE, Ore. April 30 2021 The University of Oregon has filed a federal lawsuit against a former campus police officer. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports the lawsuit accuses him of lying in police reports and withholding key evidence in an alleged malicious prosecution of a Latino bicyclist he stopped at gunpoint in 2018. The university fired officer Troy […]