Nashville TN October 7 2018 From 2001 to 2017, TBI data shows almost 1,700 Tennessee law enforcement reports involving guns or threats of guns at schools or colleges — nearly once every three days. It was a little after 2 p.m. in August 2007 at Booker T. Washington High School in Memphis when a young […]
ANCHORAGE AK October 6 2018 Security training and a fast response from police helped Wednesday’s shooting outside an Anchorage elementary school have about as good an outcome as there could be, school district officials say. A 26-year-old man was arrested Wednesday outside Denali Montessori Elementary School in downtown Anchorage. Laquinton Robbins had reportedly just dropped off […]
SOUTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. October 6 2018 A security guard is out of a job for allegedly leaving a gun unattended inside a Southwest Miami-Dade charter school bathroom. A fifth grade student found the weapon left in the bathroom at Somerset Academy Bay, located at 9500 SW 97th Ave., Friday. The student reported the gun to his […]
FAIR LAWN, NJ October 3 2018— Parents and students may have noticed an increased police presence at borough schools this year. Eleven Class Three Special Law Officers, seven full-time and four part-time, have been hired to provide security at the borough’s nine schools. Special law officers provided security at the middle schools last year during […]
Pittsburgh PA October 3 2018 Pittsburgh Public Schools are exploring a possible policy change that would allow school police officers to carry guns. Pittsburgh Public Schools police Chief George Brown told the board Monday that officers need guns to do their jobs. He added that they’ve been trained to work with all students and to de-escalate […]
Washington DC October 3 2018 Security companies spent years pushing schools to buy more products — from “ballistic attack-resistant” doors to smoke cannons that spew haze from ceilings to confuse a shooter. But sales were slow, and industry’s campaign to free up taxpayer money for upgrades had stalled. That changed last February, when a former […]
HARTFORD, CT October 3 2018 A student was arrested after a fight broke out at Hartford Public High School on Tuesday afternoon. The fight was reported around 1 p.m., where the school went into a lockdown mode until 2:30 p.m. All afternoon and evening activities were canceled for Tuesday. School officials said the fight happened between […]
Fort Myers FL Oct 2 2018 Fort Myers Police have arrested a man who got onto a Lee County school campus and attacked a security guard. It happened Thursday at Fort Myers Technical College on Michigan Avenue. Despite being a district school, the campus does not have a school resource officer. The same goes for Cape […]
Texarkana AR Sept 30 2018 An Arkansas High School student is arrested for making threats to classmates during school hours. The 17-year old is facing a felony charge of First Degree Terrorist Threatening. Texarkana, Arkansas Police say since February they’ve investigated 14 reported threats of violence and made 5 arrests. According to an arrest affidavit, […]
LOUISVILLE, Ky. Sept 29 2018 – A Bowling Green, Kentucky professor has pleaded guilty to defrauding Western Kentucky University, announced United States Attorney Russell M. Coleman. According to a plea agreement, between 2006 and October 2017, Matt Dettman devised a scheme to defraud Western Kentucky University by diverting concrete and soil test payments from WKU’s Engineering […]