CHESTER COUNTY PA Aug 2 2019 — A former resource officer at Downingtown West High School has been charged with corruption of minors after she allegedly was found semi-clothed in the back of a parked vehicle with a 17-year-old male former student at the high school, the Chester County District Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday. Stefanie Dunne, […]
Albany NY August 1 2019 Continuing a week of buttoning up the state’s gun laws, Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill prohibiting state teachers from packing heat, and a second streamlining the state’s gun buyback program. National conversation turned to the idea of arming educators in classrooms following a spate of horrific school shootings — […]
PLATTSBURGH NY July 31 2019 — Clinton Community College will be utilizing a new security service when students return to school this fall. The college’s board of trustees approved a resolution to contract the Clinton County Sheriff’s Department for campus security at its July 23 meeting. The move will shave $10,000 off of the college’s security […]
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. July 31 2019 While most students spent their summer soaking up the sun, Conner Timms and about 20 others spent it preparing for a new career as a Knox County School Security Officer. We gear our training to what they’re doing through the course of the day,” Gus Paidousis said. “They get a lot […]
Mission TX July 30 2019 By the time the incoming school year begins next month, every campus in the Sharyland Independent School district will have at least one full-time security guard on site. During Monday’s school board meeting, Sharyland trustees approved an agreement with the Mission based firm MLG Protection Services to hire four more […]
DURHAM, N.C. July 30 2019 Durham police officers said they believe a school bus driver may have ordered someone to shoot a 17-year-old Northern High School student. The story unfolded on May 29 near the Dearborn Drive and Old Oxford Road in north Durham. According to a search warrant the teen had just gotten off the […]
Memphis TN July 28 2019 A school security officer was assaulted, and police have charged a woman in that incident. Police say the assault happened around 5:20pm Friday in the 4800 block of Elvis Presley Boulevard in Whitehaven. They say a woman and three juveniles assaulted the officer and then took off in a green […]
Chicago IL July 27 2019 Chicago Public Schools is targeting security guards with training on appropriate interactions with students after a year in which they were disproportionately accused of sexual misconduct or improper behavior. Of 467 adults accused of misconduct or improper behavior last year, 67, or 14%, were security guards, according to the CPS […]
AMARILLO, Texas July 26 2019 – A school district in the Texas Panhandle will begin drug testing students as young as 12 years old who are interested in playing sports or participating in other extracurricular activities. Testing will begin with the resumption of classes next month at Bushland Independent School District and will be required of […]
Detroit MI July 25 2019 The Detroit School Board has decided to move away from Securitas as their guard provider, and to let the district take on the responsibility of hiring and managing full-time security guards. This will be the first time in nearly a decade that the district will have this power. Superintendent Nikolai […]