LOS ANGELES, CA Sept 20 2020 – Two months after a divided Los Angeles Unified school board slashed funding for its police department by more than a third, the contours of a dramatically diminished force are emerging, a newspaper reported. Under a plan presented to the board on Tuesday, police officers would be removed from school […]
Chautauqua County NY Sept 20 2020 Pine Valley and Forestville are the latest schools that are cutting school resource officers. During the Chautauqua County Legislature’s Public Safety Committee meeting Wednesday, legislators approved contracts for three school resource officers — two for BOCES and one for Silver Creek Central School. Forestville was on the agenda to […]
San Rafael CA Sept 20 2020 After months of pressure to cut ties with police, the San Rafael Board of Education voted unanimously this week to discontinue its school resource officer program and remove officers from district campuses. There were passionate pleas from both students and staff to remove the armed police officers from our […]
Macomb IL Sept 19 2020 An 18-year-old accused of shooting his roommate inside a dormitory at Western Illinois University surrendered at a Chicago police station Wednesday afternoon. Kavion Poplous, a freshman from Chicago, arrived at the Gresham District station about 1:35 p.m. and was taken into custody by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, according to […]
Chicago IL Sept 15 2020 Chicago Public Schools (CPS) announced that 84.2% of students at district schools attended remote learning classes on the first day of class on Tuesday of last week, a decline from past years that officials said was due to COVID-19 and the district’s move to e-learning to start the semester. Though CPS […]
COLUMBIA, SC Sept 13 2020 Agents with SLED said they have arrested a man accused of pointing a gun at a university police officer in South Carolina. It happened Friday near Allen University in Richland County. SLED said Ja’Cori Ochum Brown, 26, is charged with carrying or displaying firearms in public buildings or adjacent area and […]
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Columbus OH Sept 13 2020 Ohio’s Attorney General Dave Yost this week put his support behind a Butler County school district’s policy to arm school personnel. “This case presents the question whether school districts may allow non-security employees to carry firearms on school grounds,” Yost wrote in a brief to the court. “The answer is yes.” […]
PLATTSBURGH NY Sept 9 2020— City councilors unanimously voted down a contract that would have provided two school resource officers (SROs) to the Plattsburgh City School District for the 2020-2021 academic year. Most vocal against the measure was Councilor Patrick McFarlin (D-Ward 5), who had previously voted “no” on the item in both 2018 and […]
LEWISTON, Maine Sept 9 2020— The Lewiston School Committee voted 5-4 Monday night to approve a proposal to cap the number of police in schools and to discontinue the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program. The vote was held after nearly five hours of public comment, much of which highlighted a racial disparity within the community. […]
DYERSBURG, Tenn. Sept 9 2020 A Dyersburg High School student is in custody after an incident at school Tuesday. Dyersburg Police Chief Steven Isbell said a school resource officer tased the student following the incident at school, but police haven’t released any other information about the incident. Per Dyersburg Police Department protocol, paramedics responded to the […]