This Mom Was Jailed for Leaving Her Teen Home Alone. Now, She's Suing.
An appeals court rejected a qualified immunity defense.
An appeals court rejected a qualified immunity defense.
In the Bay Area and in Los Angeles County, authorities are quickly learning there's little public will to follow their mandates.
The Spanish text contains inaccurate translations of technical tax language and direct translations of phrases like "school resource officers," which could confuse voters.
New body cam footage shows Ruben Ruiz heading toward the classroom to rescue his wife, but other officers stopped him.
Only you can be relied upon to protect you and your loved ones. Ignore anybody who claims otherwise.
Transparency advocates say police could invoke a notorious loophole that allows them to hide records of deaths in custody and police killings.
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What happened in Uvalde is part of a pattern, not an aberration.
Robb Elementary didn't need additional cops; it needed the cops on hand to actually do their jobs.
"She was holding back from sharing her story until now."
While that impulse is understandable, it can lead to policies that do more harm than good.
No hollow promise can replace our attachments to our children, spouses, friends, and our own lives.
"There were 19 officers in there," said a police spokesperson. "In fact, there were plenty of officers to do whatever needed to be done."
Why did it take an hour for the police to stop alleged killer Salvador Ramos?
Don't conflate mass shootings with school shootings.
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Making schools more like prisons would not appreciably decrease violence.
Police are being asked to handle kids broken by failures of public schooling.
The students' negative COVID tests weren't good enough for school administrators.
The civil liberties group says there's a clear pattern of police misconduct involving schoolchildren.
While police in schools "do effectively reduce some forms of violence," they intensify the use of school discipline and arrests.
Calling a classmate a racist slur on Snapchat is offensive. It’s also protected speech.
"This is why people need to beat their kids," one officer remarked.
In 28 states, there's no minimum age for arresting kids.
The plan will shift $25 million away from school police and into support services for black students.
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Just the latest in a string of incidents involving school police and children with disabilities
There were four times as many incidents of physical restraint against students the year after Florida doubled the number of police in its schools.
"Our findings suggest that increasing SRO staffing in schools does not improve school safety and that increasing exclusionary responses to school discipline incidents increases the criminalization of school discipline."
His wrists were too small for the cuffs, though.
In other news, Chicago Public Schools will still spend $15 million on school police.
San Francisco and Oakland have moved toward getting police out of its schools, while Chicago and L.A. rejected similar proposals this week.
The Democratic presidential candidate wants an extra $300 million in federal grants for cops.
Will a hiring surge for school police and renewed zeal for zero tolerance policies undo years of declining youth arrests in Florida?
Several other major cities across the country are considering similar moves as calls for national policing reform intensify.
A complete end to police on campus probably isn't in the cards, but smaller victories are within reach.
One of the officers was fired after arresting two 6-year-olds in one day.
The little girl said, "I shoot you," but her mother says she didn't understand what she was saying.
Draconian anti-vaping policies are ruining students' lives.