Erie PA Sept 10 2019 A 20-year-old student at Erie High School was arrested on Friday on charges that he grabbed the gun of an Erie School District police officer after punching a behavior specialist in the face during an incident in a gym class earlier that day. The defendant, Mustefa F. Kalin, is accused […]
BURLINGTON TOWNSHIP NJ Aug 20 2019— For the past few days, Monica Andrews said she has been feeling uneasy about sending her son back to school in September. She’s one of a handful of Burlington Township Middle School parents who believe their kids appeared on a hit list written by another student in early August. It started […]
Atlanta GA Aug 20 2019 A 12-year-old and a 16-year-old were both shot after a fight broke out near a high school football stadium Saturday night, police said. A game was happening between George Washington Carver High School and Benjamin E. Mays High School at Lakewood Stadium on Claire Drive, Atlanta police told Channel 2 […]
GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. Aug 19 2019– Gwinnett County Public Schools has banned cannabis from all district property citing the Georgia Hemp Farming Act, but its police officers will join local departments in halting misdemeanor marijuana arrests, the district announced in a press release, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. The new law, signed May 10, has led […]
New Castle PA Aug 10 2019 The Mohawk Area School District has taken its first step toward creating its own police department. Former Union Township police officer Joseph Caiazza of Volant was hired on Tuesday to serve as chief of the Mohawk Area School District Police Department. He will be paid $47,000 for the next […]
SARASOTA, Fla. August 9 2019 Sarasota County Schools Police Department is now fully staffed. The department has 83 employees, 60 of which are sworn officers and 23 are working with school safety and security. This coming school year, every public school in the district will have a school resource officer from the district’s police department. Each […]
FLEMING ISLAND, Fla. Aug 3 2019- The Clay County Schools Police Department swore in its first class of officers Thursday evening. Led by Chief Kenneth Wagner, the inaugural class of 46 officers received their assignments and pins in front of a crowd of family and friends gathered inside a School Board meeting held at Fleming Island […]
CHESTER COUNTY PA Aug 2 2019 — A former resource officer at Downingtown West High School has been charged with corruption of minors after she allegedly was found semi-clothed in the back of a parked vehicle with a 17-year-old male former student at the high school, the Chester County District Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday. Stefanie Dunne, […]
NORFOLK, Va. July 28 2019 A historically black university in Virginia said Friday that it has fired nine of its police officers for sharing “misogynistic, racist and other offensive remarks via social media.” Hampton University’s statement did not detail the remarks the officers made. But it said they were fired for “egregious violations of the university’s […]
LEBANON, TN July 24 2019 Middle Tennessee is weeks away from a new school year, with $30 million more state dollars dedicated to safety. Gov. Bill Lee signed the school safety bill at the beginning of his term, whose goal was to get a student resource officer inside every school in Tennessee. Wilson County was ahead […]