LANSING, Mich. May 31 2021— A bipartisan bill moving through the Michigan legislature aims to create school safety requirements one mother says could have saved the life of her daughter. While inspections are required for cars, elevators, school buses, and many more things in Michigan, there are currently no annual health and safety inspections required in […]
SAN DIEGO CA May 28 2021 Four California colleges and universities failed to accurately or completely report crime statistics as required by federal law, including Sonoma State University that did not include a sexual assault that had occurred on campus in 2019, according to a state audit whose findings were released Thursday. The institutions were the […]
Spokane County WA May 24 2021 Spokane County is weighing options to prevent people from camping on the county campus. Camping hasn’t always been a big issue on the county grounds. County Commissioner Josh Kerns said he began noticing campers in 2018, and the problem has only grown since then. There’s been a big uptick in […]
Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania May 22 2021 An alert was sent to parents of children at a Montgomery County elementary school after security guards found a gun inside the car of a substitute teacher in the parking lot, officials said. A guard at Colonial Elementary School in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania first noticed a car that was […]
FREMONT CA May 22 2021 School district leaders in Fremont said they plan to spend more than $900,000 annually to ensure city police officers will continue to patrol the district’s six high school campuses as part of a longstanding program that has been disbanded, partially reinstated, and renegotiated in the last several months. The Fremont Unified […]
BALTIMORE MD May 22 2021 One-third of calls coming into Johns Hopkins University Office of Campus Safety and Security are incidents related to a mental health crisis. “We may get a parent who just had a conversation with their child and was just really concerned because of something that they said just didn’t seem right or […]
CHARLESTON, W.Va. May 21 2021 Money to put or keep officers in schools is up in the air after Monday night’s Charleston City Council meeting. Many council members want the discussion to go to the Public Safety Committee before a decision is made. City councilwoman Shannon Snodgrass was vocal on her standpoint about prevention resource officers […]
Lockport NY May 19 2021 The potential for armed former police officers at Lockport school buildings is being met with resistance in the district. Lockport School Board member Renee Cheatham was blunt when she reported the conclusions of the School Safety Subcommittee, a Lockport City School District committee tasked with reviewing school security. “The final […]
Lewisburg PA May 17 2021 A liberal arts college in Pennsylvania is investigating a “horrific incident” of alleged harassment of LGBTQ students. On Friday, Bucknell University President John Bravman and two school officials wrote a letter addressed to students and staff of the prestigious school acknowledging and condemning the incident. A group of nearly two […]
SAN MATEO, Calif. May 17 2021 The San Mateo Police Department is investigating a homicide that occurred Friday in the parking lot of the San Mateo Adult School. Just before 9 p.m., San Mateo police officers responded to the adult school regarding a report of a shooting. Officers arrived on scene and located a 19-year-old man […]