School Safety
The School Safety topic features news and information to help patrol officers, school resource officers and police leaders address issues of school safety and law enforcement response to acts of violence in our nation’s classrooms and campuses.
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The “school safety officers” do not do other police work like SROs do, but do use police radios for speedier emergency response, unlike private security guards
“The idea is to get young people and the troopers to better understand each other, and I think Building Bridges does that,” the school’s headmaster said
“Every child and every parent should feel an absolute peace of mind as they travel to and from school,” Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said
Traffic fatalities in camera-enforced decreased by 25% during non-school hours
One superintendent said they will not rush planning or “take unnecessary risks because these folks are responsible for protecting our children and our campuses”
The school’s superintendent said the child made no threats and likely thought the gun was just a toy
Districts will have the same SROs consistently, rather than off-duty officers from other departments, allowing for a better relationship with students
Board members who voted to reinstate the officers cited the rise in teen gun violence and the increasing number of weapons found on DPS campuses
Four officers and their powerful noses will be playing an even bigger role in the effort to reduce the number of guns being brought to schools in Las Vegas
The language of the new law states SROs are prohibited from using certain types of restraints when trying to control unruly students
Once a firearm has been identified, alerts are dispatched, including the last known location of the shooter, to school staff and law enforcement
The cousin of the gunman responsible for the deadly Uvalde school shooting was arrested after his family told police he was trying to buy a gun and “do the same thing”
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The school is scheduled to be demolished after the tour and shooting reenactment
Right now, the Broward school district contracts with 13 different municipalities, which provide school resource officers from city PDs or the sheriff’s office
“The start of a new school year is just around the corner and this is my stark warning: guns on campus are no laughing matter,” Sheriff Chad Chronister said
The statewide program awarded $25 million in funds to go toward the SRO hires, which the state said will help protect over 334,000 students
A recent allocation of $5.25 million in state funding became accessible in response to The Covenant School shooting, but MNPD officials say they don’t have the capacity to staff its 70 public schools
“In reality, in the 2020s, if we are not looking at the digital footprint of a student of concern, we are really not doing a comprehensive threat assessment.”
The vote to reinstate SROs comes after a student shot and wounded two administrators inside Denver’s largest high school
Strategies should include reporting the signs, anonymous tip lines and behavioral threat assessments
Audrey Hale was a former student at the school and it is thought that Hale’s writings might reveal a motive for the attack
A prosecutor argued that former Deputy Scot Peterson could have confronted shooter Nikolas Cruz and stopped the deaths of six of the 17 people
“A lot goes through your mind when you are driving to an in-progress active shooter at your own son’s school. I was thinking about my son and all my son’s friends. It’s hard to explain, but it was surreal.”
“It’s critically important that as many perspectives as possible come to the table in the assessment of risk or threat as well as assessing potential protective factors.”
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The majority of teachers responding to a RAND survey upheld the importance of a threat reporting and intervention system as critical for school safety
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