Philadelphia PA June 27 2020 School police will no longer patrol city public school halls come September. Instead, “school safety officers” in less severe uniforms and with different job descriptions will be stationed throughout the Philadelphia School District. The move comes amid local and national pushes to remove police from schools. A handful of big-city districts, […]
San Jose CA June 27 2020 Two San Jose school districts have joined a nationwide movement to eliminate the presence of police officers on campuses by terminating their contracts with the San Jose Police Department. The Alum Rock Union and East Side Union High School Districts’ boards of education unanimously decided Thursday night not to […]
OAKLAND CA June 26 2020 After having police on campus for more than six decades, and in response to a national outcry for reform, Oakland schools will no longer have their own force after the board voted to eliminate the department. In a unanimous vote Wednesday, the board passed the “George Floyd Resolution to Eliminate […]
KINSTON, N.C. June 21 2020 Police say an employee of a private security firm accidentally shot themselves this morning at Lenoir Community College. Kinston police say it happened just before 9:00 a.m. Wednesday. Officers say the employee of DEPS Company Police shot themselves in the lower leg. The victim was taken to Vidant Medical Center for […]
MILWAUKEE WI June 20 2020 — School board members in Wisconsin’s largest school district have voted to cut ties with police officers who patrol outside its schools. The Milwaukee school board voted unanimously late Thursday. The district received more than 700 emails and letters overwhelmingly supporting the resolution, the Journal Sentinel reported. Milwaukee Public Schools has […]
Washington DC June 17 2020 For years, civil rights activists have worked to remove police officers from the nation’s public schools, arguing that they pose a greater risk to students of color than the intruders they’re supposed to guard against. But in the wake of George Floyd’s death, a shift that seemed impossible only […]
RICHMOND CA June 15 2020 The West Contra Costa Unified School District board has unanimously approved a $377 million budget for the coming academic year that includes ending contract services with local police agencies. About $1.5 million previously budgeted for 2020-21 police services was redirected to support African American student achievement, the district said. An earlier […]
Baltimore MD June 13 2020 Officials at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland have declared that they will delay the plan to form a campus police force for two years. In a letter posted on the university’s news center, university President Ronald Daniels, medical school dean Dr. Paul Rothman and president of the Johns Hopkins Health […]
DENVER CO June 13 2020 Denver Public Schools will remove all Denver police resource officers from their building by the beginning of the 2021-2022 school year. In wake of the George Floyd and Black Lives Matter protests, and calls to defund police departments, the Denver school board unanimously voted to remove 17 Denver police officers “We […]
RALEIGH, N.C. June 12 2020 North Carolina State University Police have arrested and charged a man in connection with a fatal shooting that happened on campus Wednesday evening. Theodore James Lee Jr., 23, of Raleigh, is charged with murder, university police announced Thursday morning. The shooting was first reported around 6:30 p.m. along the 1200-block of […]