PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, Md. March 5 2021— After months of delays, the Prince George’s County Public School Board voted Monday night to keep school resource officers in their schools, while eventually phasing out school security personnel. Those recommendations were drafted by the county’s Police Reform Task Force, and accepted by the CEO of Prince George’s County […]
New York City NY Feb 6 2021 Nearly 70 candidates for City Council seats across the city are pledging to push for a complete removal of police from city schools, arguing last year’s promise to shift school safety supervision from the NYPD to the Education Department didn’t go far enough. “In the last budget we […]
GALVESTON TX Jan 31 2021 Two Texas A&M University students died on campus within hours of each other, in apparently separate incidents that left the small campus on Pelican Island in mourning Friday. Over the course of about 14 hours, school officials confirmed Brandon Perlowski, 23, a cadet in the Texas Maritime Academy from […]
NORTH LAUDERDALE, Fla. Jan 17 2021— A Florida campus security monitor is accused of bringing a loaded gun to a middle school campus, authorities said. Jennifer Melo, 33, was charged with possession of a firearm on school property, a third-degree felony, the Sun-Sentinel reported. She was released on $3,500 bail, according to the newspaper. Melo who […]
Pompano Beach FL Jan 13 2021 A school security guard was fired and arrested after surveillance video showed him grabbing a student and throwing him to the ground, according to the school principal and court records. Alie Joseph worked as a security guard at the Youth Under Construction Youth Center, a private school for at-risk […]
Butler County OH Jan 12, 2021 A Butler County judge has invalidated the Madison Schools armed staff program, ruling the school board violated open meetings laws when it held private meetings to authorize individuals to carry guns. Last week Judge Greg Stephens agreed the school board acted improperly when it deployed its armed staff program […]
La Crosse WI Dec 24 2020 The School District of La Crosse Board of Education voted to phase police out of its schools, after months of investigating the program found it negatively impacted marginalized students in the district. Police officers will no longer be regularly in school buildings, and the district will begin reducing the […]
Manatee County Vernon D. Everett, a former security officer for the Manatee County school district, has resigned after an investigation found that he falsified work logs and went to the gym instead of work. Everett joined the school district in July 2019 and resigned at the end of November. He could not be reached for […]
Clay County FL December 18 2020 A 42-year-old security officer at Middleburg High School has been arrested after cocaine was found in his vehicle on the campus at 3750 County Road 220, the Clay County Sheriff’s Office said. Douglas Charles Batchelder, a Clay County school district guardian, was charged with possession of cocaine. No arrest photo […]
BOCA RATON FL Dec 13 2020— Two school custodians have been arrested after police report that the two brought a rifle onto the J.C. Mitchell Elementary campus after school hours Wednesday and posed with the weapon in photographs later posted on social media. Alerted to a photo that appeared on WhatsApp, school police reported that […]