FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. November 23 2018 A local sheriff who is leading the state commission investigating Florida’s high school massacre says he now believes trained, volunteer teachers should have access to guns so they can stop shooters who get past other safeguards. Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri, the chairman of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High […]
NORFORK, Ark. November 22 2018 – Seven employees at Norfork School District are commissioned school security officers who carry their concealed weapons while school is in session. If they’re teachers, they put their guns in a safe while in the classroom. Those employees were trained by the Arkansas State Police. The school also has two school […]
PORTSMOUTH, Va. November 21 2018 – Police are searching for the man who brought a gun that accidentally went off at Simonsdale Elementary School Tuesday afternoon. The incident happened in the 4800 block of Clifford Street around 4 p.m. A parent was struck by a ricochet bullet, which hit her after a another parent’s firearm […]
Trenton NJ November 21 2018 Days after a contract mix-up left kids in Trenton’s public schools without the protection of security guards, Mayor Reed Gusciora held a press conference Tuesday saying school safety is a paramount concern for the city. He stopped short, however, of calling for the district’s superintendent to resign — a demand […]
Nashville TN November 20 2018 Tennessee has performed its first-ever safety review of every school campus in the state. The safety assessments identified surveillance and vehicle and access control to buildings as areas needing improvement, and findings were included in a report issued Wednesday. “It is possible that schools scored the lowest in these particular […]
DALLAS TX November 19 2018– An argument over child custody led to a shooting at the University of North Texas at Dallas campus Saturday evening, police say. The suspect in the shooting was caught. Dallas police say officers responded to the call on campus at around 6:50 p.m. where they found a 41-year-old victim had […]
TRENTON, N.J. November 18 2018 Trenton officials are working to ensure all public schools are watched by law enforcement in the wake of a security mixup. They say a contract dispute left several public schools without guards and, in some cases, that prompted worried parents to pull their kids from class. In an unfortunate coincidence, the […]
YONKERS, New York November 18 2018 Exhausted and frustrated, a Yonkers School public safety officer who had to walk when his car got stuck in Thursday’s nightmare Nor’easter didn’t let it get the best of him. Traffic, like everywhere around the region was at a standstill. After so many hours, the kids needed a bathroom, and […]
Palatine IL November 18 2018 A suburban Illinois school district says it plans to hire retired police officers as armed office workers, granting them permission to carry weapons on school campuses so they might take action in the event of a school shooting. School officials, parents and students have all been searching for a response to […]
Schuylkill County PA November 16 2018 Teachers in the Tamaqua Area School District are mounting a legal challenge to a new policy that allows staff to carry guns in school, alleging the measure is a violation of the Pennsylvania School Code. The Tamaqua Area Education Association filed a lawsuit in Schuylkill County Court on Wednesday […]