MURFREESBORO, Tenn. May 20 2022 One person is dead and another is critically injured after a shooting that happened Wednesday night on the campus of Middle Tennessee State University. While the campus is down to Maymester students and freshmen orientations during the day, Riverdale High School used Murphy Center for its commencement ceremony starting at […]
MIAMI FL May 14, 2022 Police shot and killed a person they called a “Violent erratic suspect” on the campus of a school in West Palm Beach. They say the suspect was driving the wrong way before crashing a van through a locked gate of Dreyfus School of the Arts. The driver then ran into the […]
CLEVELAND OH May 11 2022 The FOX 8 I-Team has found that the head of security for Cleveland schools arrested for driving drunk for a second time. In this case, Solon Police filed charges against Dennis Hill. The Cleveland Metropolitan School District identified him as the chief of safety and security, earning $140,062 a year. […]
Los Angeles CA May 11 2022 Millions of students in the United States go to schools with police officers present. The officers are known as School Resource Officers, or SROs. They are meant to keep schools and students safe. Police in schools date back to the late 1940s. But school shootings, including the 1999 shooting […]
Storrs CT May 10 2022 Since its earliest days, UConn has always had various groups of people working to ensure safety at the Storrs campus – sometimes as “watchmen,” later as security officers, and most recently as sworn police personnel. This spring, UConn marks the 50-year anniversary of legislation that transformed its Security Division into the […]
JUNCTION CITY, Kan. May 7 2022 Security personnel at Junction City High School will soon wear body cameras after the school board voted to approve the move. JC Post reports that members of the USD 475 Board of Education voted to approve a revised policy that allows authorized security personnel at Junction City High School to […]
Philadelphia PA May 7 2022 In the face of rising gun violence, the Philadelphia School District is beginning periodic weapons screenings in all middle schools and elementary schools with middle grades, effective Monday. The aim is to scan all sixth through eighth graders at least once before the end of the school year. Scans will happen […]
BELTON, Texas May 5 2022 Caysen Tyler Allison, 18, is the student taken into custody after a stabbing at Belton High School Tuesday morning that resulted in the death of fellow student Jose Luis Ramirez Jr., 18, KWTX has confirmed. The victim’s death was initially confirmed to KWTX by a source close to the family. A […]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. April 30 2022— A man and woman were arrested after bringing handguns to Memphis Baptist College. On Apr. 27 at approximately 4:00 p.m., the Memphis Police Department (MPD) responded to a weapon law violation at Memphis Baptist College, which is in the 3900 block of Chelsea Avenue. When officers arrived, they were met […]
BERRYVILLE VA April 29 2022— Security personnel at Clarke County’s two public elementary schools will be provided guns to carry while on duty, despite them no longer being sworn law-enforcement officers. The officers, David Jarvis at Boyce Elementary and Bill Schoeb at D.G. Cooley Elementary, work for the county’s school division rather than a police […]