Duval County FL Dec 14 2020 A new statewide grand jury report studying school safety issues lambasted the Duval County School Police Department for “outright fraud” and underreporting incident and crime numbers to make a better impression. Now in response, the school district is launching its own review. Late Thursday, the Florida Supreme Court website […]
BOCA RATON FL Dec 13 2020— Two school custodians have been arrested after police report that the two brought a rifle onto the J.C. Mitchell Elementary campus after school hours Wednesday and posed with the weapon in photographs later posted on social media. Alerted to a photo that appeared on WhatsApp, school police reported that […]
LOS ANGELES CA Dec 12 2020 Leslie Ramirez, who has been serving as interim chief of Los Angeles School Police since July, was given the position full-time Tuesday. She is the first woman to serve in the post. “Chief Ramirez has dedicated her career to keeping all in our school community — students, staff and their […]
AMERICUS GA Sept 25 2020 – South Georgia Technical College (SGTC) Campus Safety Director Sammy Stone and the members of the SGTC campus safety office were recognized recently during National Security Officer Appreciation Week. The third week in September is National Security Officer Appreciation Week and it is designed to recognize in-house and contract security personnel. […]
Park Ridge IL Sept 24 2020 Park Ridge aldermen on Monday narrowly approved a modified agreement that will keep school resource officers at Maine South and Maine East High Schools over the next five years. With Aldermen Maureen Hartwig, Roger Shubert and Marc Mazzuca dissenting, the school resource officer agreement passed the City Council by a […]
New Orleans LA Sept 22 2020 A former Tulane contract worker is suing the university because campus police shot him while trying to arrest him for allegedly masturbating in an office and forcing a co-worker to watch. Taivon Aples alleges that Tulane subjected him to excessive force and therefore violated his civil rights, though campus […]
Montgomery Al Sept 21 2020 An Alabama State University standout student has been charged in the slaying of a fellow student, Adam “Belle” Dowdell. Just two years ago, Ivry Hall was lauded in news stories from Alabama to Illinois for overcoming the deaths of both his parents at a young age and escaping a life of […]
RAPID CITY, S.D. Sept 21 2020— The past several years, surveys have indicated strong support for campus police officers and increased security on campus. The effort heightens the security for students and staff. Douglas Parrow, Chief Campus Safety at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology says, “We are extremely familiar with the buildings, […]
LOS ANGELES, CA Sept 20 2020 – Two months after a divided Los Angeles Unified school board slashed funding for its police department by more than a third, the contours of a dramatically diminished force are emerging, a newspaper reported. Under a plan presented to the board on Tuesday, police officers would be removed from school […]
Chautauqua County NY Sept 20 2020 Pine Valley and Forestville are the latest schools that are cutting school resource officers. During the Chautauqua County Legislature’s Public Safety Committee meeting Wednesday, legislators approved contracts for three school resource officers — two for BOCES and one for Silver Creek Central School. Forestville was on the agenda to […]