Pasco County FL Feb 11 2020 As William Miller tried to drive out of the high school parking lot, two adults stopped him, blocking the exit lane with a golf cart. A school resource officer employed by the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office and a school discipline assistant told him he couldn’t leave the campus in […]
COMMERCE, TX Feb 4 2020— Texas A&M Commerce was sheltering in place while they investigated a shooting that left two dead. According to Texas A&M Commerce officials, the university police department received a call around 10:17 a.m. from a student who lives at Pride Rock residence hall. When they arrived, they found two adult females […]
Columbus OH Jan 28 2020 A new proposal in the Ohio State Senate would create a school marshal program within the state’s Department of Public Safety, offering school security to public and private schools throughout Ohio. The state’s analysis of Senate Bill 147 found that the proposed program could cost millions of dollars, The Center […]
ST GEORGE Utah Jan 28 2020— As Dixie State University continues to grow by leaps and bounds, its campus safety department is working to meet the increased need and improve on previous practices. Dixie State’s Department of Public Safety was ranked third in the nation for the 2020 Safe Campus Top 25 list. In the […]
TOMBALL, Texas Jan 24 2020 A Texas teacher who authorities say brought a handgun to school and made threatening comments about colleagues has been arrested. Mark Davis, a history and geography teacher at Concordia Lutheran High School in Tomball, located northwest of Houston, was arrested Wednesday. Tomball police say he’s charged with possessing a weapon in […]
Storrs CT Jan 23 2020 The body of a University of Connecticut student has been recovered by campus police. Tianyin Shang, 19, was found Monday in Mirror Lake on the Storrs campus, according to school officials. The news came as students returned to classes on the first day of the spring semester. “My heart goes […]
Chicago IL January 17 2020 Chicago police officers posted at schools are no longer allowed to intervene in student discipline but will, at least for the time being, remain in more than 70 schools. Those are among the changes laid out in a $33 million agreement between Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Police Department […]
Louisville KY January 15 2020 The Jefferson County school district, the largest in the state, is currently crafting its plans for a district-managed police force. The seven-member board has remained divided over whether to arm officers, with at least three members indicating in December that they had not made up their minds on the issue. […]
PORTLAND, Ore. Jan 2 2020— Portland State University will pay $1 million to the family of a man that its campus police officers shot and killed in 2018 as part of a settlement agreement announced Tuesday. Jason Washington, 45, was shot nine times by two PSU campus police officers in June 2018 during a fight […]
BOSTON, MA December 28 2019 — Northeastern University is searching for a solution one day after a school-owned garage was the site where a West Roxbury woman and her two small children fell to their deaths in what is being called a likely double murder-suicide on Christmas. Erin Pascal, 40, of West Roxbury and her two […]