Harrisburg PA October 3 2019 Amid a flurry of legislative activity in June, Gov. Tom Wolf signed a bill creating new training requirements for security officers and other armed personnel who patrol Pennsylvania’s schools. The only problem, according to lawmakers and local officials? The bill mistakenly stripped school police officers — licensed law enforcement […]
BROOKSVILLE FL October 3 2019— Hernando County school officials will ask the School Board next week to consider establishing its own police force. The shift away from paying the Hernando County Sheriff’s Office for its school resource deputies would come in August 2020, officials said. The school district could hire more officers, with a sharper […]
EMMA IN October 2 2019 – Members of the Westview School Board voted to approve of the formation of a new police force to work inside the Westview School Corporation Superintendent Randy Miller said the school board decided to create the new Westview Police Department in order to create another layer of school security for […]
ELON, N.C. Sept 20 2019— For the second day in a row, FOX8 is following an alleged sexual assault of a college student in the Piedmont Triad. On Wednesday, it was Wake Forest University. On Thursday, FOX8 learned there was a reported rape in student housing at Elon University. A heavily-redacted police report showed a […]
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. Sept 20 2019 An alert has been issued following a report of an attempted abduction on the Cookeville campus of Volunteer State Community College. According to campus police, a female student reported that on Tuesday night between 8:50 p.m. and 9 p.m., she was approached by a white man in his 40s, who followed […]
JACKSONVILLE, Ala. September 18 2019— Six statutory rapes cases reported to Jacksonville State University campus police are under investigation. Most of the cases are reported to have happened on campus. JSU’s attorney says this is an on-going investigation. He says there is no risk to students and there has not been any risk. An outside […]
Los Angeles CA Sept 14 2019 Taft High school police officer Glen Wright is always ready for anything. He was at the high school on the afternoon of Aug. 29 preparing for the school to host a football game and was patrolling the campus when he was alerted by people reporting a suicidal woman on […]
Chicago IL September 12 2019 In a poll requested by the school district, about 70 of Chicago’s Local School Councils at schools where police are stationed voted to retain officers in their schools, the first time the representative bodies made up of parents, teachers, and community members expressed their opinion on whether to keep or remove […]
VOORHEESVILLE, N.Y. Sept 11 2019 Voorheesville parents were told in May that a new school resource officer would be taking over the school district. However, when doors opened this week for students, an SRO was not present on school grounds. Last year, the Voorheesville Central School District brought on a part-time school resource officer to patrol […]
Cobb County GA Sept 10 2019 A gang member incited a riot involving 200 people at South Cobb High School when he chased and fought a classmate and rival gang member after a football game, police say. Ty’Shon Latrell Murray, 18, of Powder Springs is behind bars in the Cobb County jail without bond facing a […]