Montgomery County MD Jan 23 2022 A student was shot at Magruder High School on Friday, sending the Montgomery County school into lockdown as SWAT officers arrived and terrified parents showed up to try to get their children. A 17-year-old student who had been found in a classroom two hours after the shooting was taken into […]
PINECREST, Fla. Jan 23, 2022– An 18-year-old appearing to be a corrections officer was arrested at Miami Palmetto Senior High School when school police became suspicious on Thursday. Investigators said that Erick Anthony Moore Jr. of Miami was inside the school around 1 p.m. talking to staff when Miami-Dade Schools police approached him. The officers […]
LOS ANGELES CA Jan 21, 2022 Most fraternities at the University of Southern California will be allowed to start having parties again in March if security guards are posted at stairs or hallways in fraternity houses that lead to bedrooms, the Los Angeles Times reported. Strict rules issued in advance of spring recruiting known as “rush” […]
LOUISVILLE, Ky. Jan 21, 2022 Jefferson County Public Schools is working out the details of what the role of a school safety officer will look like. The district’s policy committee met Wednesday night to discuss more about SSO training, who they will report to, and what this new initiative could cost. “I do believe this four […]
Hartford CT Jan 17, 2022 A Connecticut seventh grader has died after being exposed to fentanyl at school earlier in the week. WFSB reports the 13-year-old boy overdosed on fentanyl at the Sports and Medical Sciences Academy, a magnet school with about 600 students in Hartford. The boy was found unconscious and received CPR by the […]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. Jan 13, 2022— A Memphis mother was arrested after carrying a handgun into a high school, according to the Memphis Police Department. Police said that 40-year-old Demetria Jones walked into Kirby High School with the weapon on Monday around 3 p.m. According to a police affidavit, a school resource officer noticed the gun […]
TAFT, Calif. Jan 12, 2022 The Taft Union High School District approved a resolution in a special meeting on Monday to establish its own security department. For the last four years, the district had contracted with the Kern County Sheriff’s Office to have a deputy assigned to its schools, according to the Taft Union […]
TOWNSHIP OF WASHINGTON NJ Jan 10 2022—Acting Westwood Regional School District Superintendent Jill Mortimer says the district has “a clear direction from multiple groups of stakeholders” to proceed with the hiring of a Class II officer for duty at the regional high school, rounding out the current security roster, which includes an armed guard […]
Dayton OH Jan 9 2022 A fight among several girls Thursday at David H. Ponitz Career Tech Center on Washington Street ended with one student arrested for assault and the principal of the school, Melinda Clark, hurt. Elizabeth Lolli, superintendent for Dayton Public Schools, said of Clark, “she is going to be fine.” The fight occurred […]
RALEIGH, North Carolina Jan 1 2022 Tear gas was used to stop a large fight that broke out during a basketball tournament at Wake Technical Community College’s Northern Wake campus on Wednesday night. The fight interrupted a final game in the 49th John Wall Holiday Invitational — one of the top high school basketball tournaments in […]