CHERRY HILL NJ April 21 2018 – The school district is arming its campus police officers as “the next step in our enhanced security,” Superintendent Joseph Meloche said Friday. Four campus officers “will be armed beginning on Monday” at the district’s East and West high schools, Meloche said in a letter to parents. Two officers will […]
Tallahassee FL April 20 2018 After the Parkland school shootings, every school district in Florida reassessed its school security and, unsurprisingly enough, found it needed to do more. At the end of the legislative session last month, Gov. Rick Scott touted the $400 million that the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act appropriates […]
Williamsburg VA April 20 2018 Ten people — including eight College of William & Mary students and a professor — were arrested this week on narcotics distribution charges following a months-long investigation, Williamsburg police said. Police said the operation, a joint investigation by Williamsburg authorities and the Tri-Rivers Drug Task Force, seized LSD, cocaine, psilocybin (mushrooms), […]
KANSAS CITY, Kan. April 20 2018— A KCK school resource officer has been charged Thursday after allegedly having sexual contact with three minors, Wyandotte County prosecutors say. Michael English Sr., 57, has been charged with three counts of aggravated indecent liberties after prosecutors say he engaged in lewd fondling or touching with three children who […]
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. April 19 2018 – More than 100 people will soon be hired by Duval County Public Schools to become “school safety assistants,” armed positions aimed at protecting schools, if a plan is eventually approved by the school board. The plan was one of five introduced at a Duval County School Board workshop Tuesday morning. […]
Sarasota County FL April 19 2018 The Sarasota County School Board decided Tuesday to create and manage an internal school security department over the next two years, dramatically shifting course from earlier discussions about continuing and expanding a program employing sheriff’s deputies and police officers from elementary through high schools. Under the plan — a direct […]
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. April 18 2018 — The suspect in 19-year-old Binghamton University student Joao Souza’s stabbing death remained at large until late Monday afternoon, when law enforcement officials announced his capture. Although the identity of the suspect remained undisclosed during a 5 p.m. press conference, Broome County District Attorney Steve Cornwell said the suspect is also […]
Elmhurst IL April 15 2018 Police responded to assist campus security after a person who had been warned previously to stay away from the Elmhurst College as again found on their property. Martique Barksdale, 36, of the 0-100 block of Yale Avenue, Villa Park, was charged with trespassing and possession of drug paraphernalia at 12:11 […]
Columbus OH April 10 2018 Ohio State President Michael Drake announced Monday night the creation of a task force designed to improve mental health resources and practices at the university in the wake of two people jumping or falling from the university’s Union South garage within four days. Dr. Eileen Ryan, interim chair of our Department […]
Chicago IL April 5 2018 A University of Chicago police officer shot and seriously wounded a 21-year-old student who charged an officer with a metal pipe near the South Side campus late Tuesday, authorities said. The shooting happened off campus just before 10:15 p.m. in the Hyde Park neighborhood, an area patrolled by both U. […]