Eugene OR December 31 2020 In June, the Eugene School Board had to decide whether to renew its contract for school resource officers. The contentious decision came at the height of a new racial justice movement around police reform. After hours of discussion, where some called for the officersto be removed immediately while others pleaded […]
Eugene OR December 29 2020 As the University of Oregon Police Department reduces its number of armed officers, unarmed community service officers will take their place with expanded roles around campus, according to a campus-wide email Nov. 9 from UO President Michael Schill that listed new reforms to UOPD. UOPD Chief Matt Carmichael said that the […]
Costa Mesa CA Dec 26 2020 An Orange Coast College student being sexually assaulted by a man on campus was able to get away because a good Samaritan saw the attack and intervened, Costa Mesa police said Thursday, Dec. 24. The 19-year-old student was walking near the Horticulture area and the Technology building just before […]
La Crosse WI Dec 24 2020 The School District of La Crosse Board of Education voted to phase police out of its schools, after months of investigating the program found it negatively impacted marginalized students in the district. Police officers will no longer be regularly in school buildings, and the district will begin reducing the […]
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. Dec 18 2020 Twenty-one people have been arrested for dealing drugs at and around University of North Carolina, Duke University, and Appalachian State University. United States Attorney Matthew Martin, a UNC alumni, said the arrested drug dealers were not small time drug users, but instead “hardened drug dealers.” “This is a large drug […]
OAKLAND, Calif. Dec 17 2020 Two weeks from now, armed Alameda County sheriff’s deputies will be a thing of the past at Laney College in Oakland, and other campuses that make up the Peralta Community College District. “The relationship with the Alameda sheriffs ends on Dec. 31. So that really put them under a lot of […]
Blacksburg VA Dec 16 2020 Marijuana has been growing on Virginia. This summer, the state decriminalized the drug, meaning simple possession prompts a $25 civil fine rather than a misdemeanor that could carry a $500 fee, a suspended driver’s license and even jail time. Last month, Gov. Ralph Northam pledged that the General Assembly convening […]
Ithaca NY December 15 2020 The Student Assembly passed a resolution calling for Cornell Police disarmament during its last meeting of the semester on Thursday, signifying a reversal in positions from when disarmament failed to pass almost one month ago. Under the resolution, which will now go to President Martha Pollack, disarmament would mean revoking […]
CEDAR CITY UT Dec 14 2020— Two men driving a vehicle with a Colorado license plate were arrested by Southern Utah University Police Thursday night on multiple charges, including theft of a vehicle. According to a probable cause statement filed in support of the arrest, Jase Parris, 31, and Christopher Lee Coulter, 31, were reported […]
ALLENDALE, MI Dec 14 2020— A runner found a body on the Grand Valley State University campus and police are investigating the death as suspicious. The body was discovered near the intermural athletic fields, south of West Campus Drive, on the morning of Saturday, Dec. 12. GVSU President Philomena Mantella later Saturday, in a written […]