Palm Springs CA Aug 9 2021 Palm Springs Unified School District said there will continue to be security officers, however, School Resource Officers will not be there for the start of the school year. They may be added as the school year goes on. The district held a public board meeting about the issue on […]
Dartmouth NH Aug 8 2021At the onset of the pandemic, Dartmouth’s Department of Safety and Security replaced its SafeRide program with walking escorts — a decision the College has yet to reverse, according to Safety and Security associate director Douglas Babcock. “The SafeRide program is under evaluation and the College is looking at a number […]
Alexandria Virginia August 7 2021 City Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Gregory Hutchings Ed.D. and staff sent a proposal to the School Board on July 16 requesting increased security inside school buildings. The report comes after City Council reallocated funds from the School Resource Officer program for mental health initiatives. According to the report, ACPS stakeholders, including […]
GREENVILLE, N.C. Aug 4 2021— A man is accused of setting fire to a police SUV at East Carolina University. According to campus police, 20-year-old Fernando Daniel Laurens was arrested Tuesday and charged with resisting, delaying and obstructing a police officer and three counts of felony arson to personal property. Laurens is not an ECU […]
Knoxville Aug 2 2021 Officers were sworn in during a Knox County Schools Security Officer graduation ceremony at South-Doyle Middle School in Knoxville, Tenn. on Thursday, July 29, 2021. School security officers are employed by Knox County Schools. They carry bond cards from the Knox County Sheriff’s Office which allows them to carry a gun […]
Jackson County NC August 1 2021 The pandemic slowed funding for the other half. But now, work is about to begin. Four Jackson County schools have already converted to single point-of-entry schools, but four more remain, including Smoky Mountain High School. “Those schools were not built to necessarily keep people out and in case of […]
Española, NM Aug 1 2021 The First Judicial District Attorney’s Office has obtained an arrest warrant for a former Española Middle School security guard accused of having criminal sexual contact with a student over the course of several years, beginning in 2019 when the girl was in the eighth grade. The former guard, Chantell Gallegos, […]
Hillsboro Ohio July 23 2021 A man accused of plotting a mass shooting and targeting sorority members at an Ohio college was arrested and charged with an attempted hate crime, the Department of Justice announced Wednesday. Prosecutors said Tres Genco, 21, of Hillsboro, Ohio, allegedly planned to shoot women at the university, which they did not […]
Chicago IL July 23 2021 More than 30 Chicago high schools have voted to redirect money spent on uniformed police officers to alternative behavioral and mental health supports a year after intense student-led protests put a microscope on the role of cops in public schools. The moves shift about $2 million from policing to restorative justice […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. July 23 2021 Montgomery police have charged a 17-year-old in connection to a recent homicide investigation. Daiyon El-Amin, 17, is charged with capital murder in the shooting death of 17-year-old Leiah Holmes. Leiah was a rising senior at Alabama Christian Academy before she was fatally shot on July 12. At a school vigil, her […]