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 […]
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 […]
Laredo TX April 26 2022 A security guard has been arrested for allegedly assaulting a student at the United High School 9th Grade Campus, according to an arrest affidavit. On April 11, Ernesto Plascencia Jr., 49, was served with an arrest warrant charging him with assault. He was released on bond that same day, according […]
BALMVILLE NY April 24 2022– A Balmville School security officer is credited with saving a fifth-grade student who was choking on a piece of an orange during lunchtime. Newburgh school officials said Ariana Miranda was eating lunch on Tuesday, April 19 when she ate an orange and decided to get another one. She began to peel […]
WACO, Texas April 20 2022 A security guard was injured while trying to break up a fight involving students at Waco High School’s cafeteria on Friday, April 8. KWTX has confirmed with the school district there was a brief altercation involving two students that lasted about two minutes. Staff members were able to intervene immediately. While […]
STOCKTON, Calif. April 20 2022— A 15-year-old girl was stabbed to death Monday on a high school campus in an apparently random attack, authorities said. The girl was stabbed several times at about 11 a.m. at Stagg High School in Stockton in California’s Central Valley and died at a hospital, Stockton Unified School District Superintendent […]