Pittsburgh PA December 28 2019 Five Pittsburgh schools are among the top 25 in the state for arrests and citations, according to data from the Pennsylvania Department of Education. The figures are fuel to the fiery debate over school security and police officers in the buildings. “I don’t believe there should be police presence in schools,” […]
ROUND ROCK, Texas December 24 2019— Come June 2021, Round Rock ISD will have to put the finishing touches on hiring its own police department personnel to provide security to all of its schools. The school district is the largest in Williamson County, and according to RRISD Trustees, has partnered with the Williamson County Sheriff’s […]
GREENFIELD, Ind. December 8 2019– School resource officers in Hancock County are giving tickets to underage students caught vaping. It is a new idea the district started to combat this issue. Inside high schools across Indiana, more and more students are picking up this trend. Adam Barton is the principal at Eastern Hancock High School […]
Philadelphia PA December 4 2019 Kevin Bethel built a 30-year career locking people up, rising to become a respected deputy commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department. But that’s not who he is anymore. Last month, Philadelphia School Superintendent William R. Hite Jr. named him special adviser for school safety — essentially the chief of the […]
Harrisburg PA December 4 2019 School police officers in Pennsylvania have had their powers to make arrests restored after being inadvertently taken away earlier this year. In the recent flurry of bills that Gov. Tom Wolf signed into law was one that addresses a couple of issues related to school safety officers. Aside from returning […]
Waukesha WI December 4 2019 An officer shot an armed male student Monday morning in a classroom at a suburban Milwaukee high school after the suspect pointed a gun at officers, a police chief said. A Waukesha South High School student informed a school resource officer that a classmate had a handgun around 10:17 a.m., Waukesha […]
PEORIA IL November 27 2019 An armed and certified Peoria Public Schools police department and shorter terms for school board members are closer to reality following positive votes at last weekend’s state board of education’s Joint Annual Conference in downtown Chicago. The voting body, comprised of hundreds of school board members from across the state, recommended […]
TULSA, Okla. Nov 24 2019 The Jenks Public Schools Campus Police Department took three people into custody Thursday. Campus police received a call just before noon about a suspicious car parked between the Freshman Academy and the Sharp Center. Officers found two juveniles and one adult inside the car. According to officials, the juveniles are not […]
State College PA Nov 22 2019 Earlier this month, Penn’s Division of Public Safety received Security Magazine’s Security 500 award for the No. 1 Public Safety program in higher education for the 13th year in a row. The rankings are based on data supplied by each university as well as other public records. Factors evaluated […]
HANNIBAL NY Nov 20 2019- The Hannibal Central School District (HCSD) welcomed two special patrol officers (SPO) to join its school security aide this year as part of ongoing safety efforts. Mike Goudy, a retired officer from the Syracuse Police Department (SPD), and Dave Brown, a retired lieutenant also from the SPD, will handle several responsibilities […]