Austin TX May 30th, 2023 The Texas Legislature has approved and sent to Gov. Greg Abbott a bill that would require school districts to have an armed officer on every campus and invest $330 million to beef up school security statewide. The bill emerged from a focus this session on school security after the May 24, […]
Pittsburgh Pa May 26 2023 After the second fatal shooting outside Oliver Academy in 16 months, a Pittsburgh Public Schools board member is lashing out at the superintendent. If things don’t change, Kevin Carter said the superintendent should resign. “This most recent shooting is the third egregiously violent incident at Oliver Citywide on the watch of […]
San Marcos Texas May 26 2023 School may be nearly out for the summer, but there’s no vacation from examining the district’s existing safety protocols. This session, state lawmakers have had several school safety priority bills presented to them. One such bill, House Bill 3, has been approved by the Senate and awaits a second House […]
FORT WORTH, Texas May 24 2023 — A group of Fort Worth parents have band together to try to improve the safety of their school. It started with the tragedy in Uvalde, where 18 school children and two teachers were murdered. Late May marks the one-year anniversary of the tragedy. “It was very hard to watch,” […]
Phoenix AZ May 21 2023 Police officials released information on a weapons-related incident in Maryvale that led to a teen’s arrest on May 19. According to a statement, officers, along with two school security officers, were called to Bostrom High School for a student with a gun call. “When they arrived, officers detained the male student […]
Patterson NJ May 18, 2023 A man was arrested Tuesday in Paterson after he had an altercation with a school security guard that involved an exchange of gunfire, authorities said. Few details about what allegedly happened between the two men were shared by investigators, but the Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office said police responded to the area […]
Washington DC May 18 2023 A mourning grandmother says her grandson was the Roosevelt High School student who was shot and killed in the parking lot of the Northwest D.C. high School on Wednesday afternoon. Sonia Ferrufino says her daughter brought 17-year-old Jefferson Pérez to the United States from El Salvador when he was just 9-months-old. […]
Chesapeake Virginia May 16, 2023 The Chesapeake School Board voted to move forward with new policies and regulations that allow the possibility for armed school security officers or SSOs. “The decision that was made this evening was to really allow school security officers that are our employees to potentially be armed,” said Chesapeake Public Schools Superintendent […]
LINDENHURST, NY May 15 2023– A school security officer and former fire chief was recently recognized by the Town of Babylon for his heroic actions involving a stabbing at Lindenhurst Middle School. Michael DeGregorio was awarded the Heroism Award, the Town’s highest honor, at a recent Town Board meeting on Wednesday. On March 27, Michael […]
Las Vegas May 11 2023 A campus security monitor at Von Tobel Middle School was hit by a stray bullet on Monday. Monday’s shooting is now bringing light to the risks campus security monitors face daily while on the job. Chris Basurto served in the position for about four years at Basic High School. He […]