LAS VEGAS, N.M. May 6 2021 A New Mexico student who claims she was sexually assaulted repeatedly by a school employee is now suing the West Las Vegas School District for negligence and alleges the Las Vegas Police Department missed routine investigation practices. “Our goal through the lawsuit is for the school district and law enforcement […]
Palatine, IL May 6 2021 The Palatine Police Department is expected to begin responding to overnight calls from Harper College later this year or early next year. The village council gave its consent Monday night to an intergovernmental agreement with the college that will allow village police to respond to calls from 11 p.m. to […]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. May 2 2021— Memphis police arrested a student who allegedly brought a gun into a local school. The incident happened Tuesday morning at Fairley High School. Police say an administrator at the school was told by a teacher that a student had a handgun in his waistband inside a classroom. The student, identified […]
Minneapolis MN May 1 2021 Long-simmering tensions between University of Minnesota student activists and campus police have reached a boiling point, with student leaders calling for the chief to resign and a state police association stepping in to defend officers from criticism it deems unwarranted. In a letter to administrators last week, student government leaders demanded […]
TUCSON, Ariz. April 30 2021 Robots are turning up everywhere in modern life. Now one has turned up in the police department for Pima Community College. We’re used to the idea of police using robots for dangerous work like dealing with bombs but police at Pima Community College have an egg shaped robot rolling around PCC […]
EUGENE, Ore. April 30 2021 The University of Oregon has filed a federal lawsuit against a former campus police officer. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports the lawsuit accuses him of lying in police reports and withholding key evidence in an alleged malicious prosecution of a Latino bicyclist he stopped at gunpoint in 2018. The university fired officer Troy […]
Atlanta GA April 28 2021 More than 250 officers from the Atlanta Police Department, and the Clark Atlanta University and Morehouse and Spelman college police forces are now also Fulton County sheriff’s deputies. The move gives the officers a broader jurisdiction to fight crime, according to Fulton Sheriff Patrick “Pat” Labat. Labat deputized more than 200 […]
Berkeley CA April 27 2021 The Berkeley school district is considering what role, if any, police should play in its schools. At a board meeting on Wednesday night, school board members debated the role of the School Resource Officer (SRO), a single officer employed by the Berkeley Police Department who is stationed at school campuses. […]
MADISON, Wis. April 27 2021 The Madison Metropolitan School District is defending itself against criticism for an email sent to some families of students at one of its high schools, admitting it may have been “poorly worded.” The email offered families a virtual space to discuss policing and pointed them to groups divided by race. Framed in […]
Minneapolis MN April 27 2021 High school students are back in class in Minneapolis, St. Paul and Hopkins, but there’s a change in the hallways: no armed police officers. All three districts cut ties with school resource officers (SROs), whose presence brought anxiety to many. Aides monitor the halls at Hopkins High, while in Minneapolis and […]