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Dates of Program:
October 5, 6, 7, 12, 13 and 14, 2010.
Times:
8:00 to 4:30 p.m.
Location:
Wethersfield Police Department 505 Silas Deane Highway Wethersfield, CT
Cost:
This pilot program is sponsored by Travelers and is offered to CT officers free of charge.
Who Can Attend:
Preference will be given to School Resource Officers. Youth Officers and other officers in youth related activities may also attend.
The Yakima police department received $1.7 million from a three-year COPS grant
By Viviana Buzo
Yakima Herald-Republic
The Yakima School District and Yakima Police Department have entered an agreement to provide two additional school resource officers for the district with the aid of the federal COPS hiring grant.
The officers will be placed at Franklin and Wilson middle schools.
The Connecticut School Resource Officer Association, in collaboration with National Alliance on Mental Illness of Connecticut and Connecticut Alliance to Benefit Law Enforcement, present Building Bridges on Thursday, September 23, 2010 at the Central Connecticut State University, 1615 Stanley Street, New Britain, CT from 8:30 AM to 4:00 PM. Continue Reading »
By DAVID CRARY
The Associated Press
3:09 p.m. Tuesday, May 25, 2010
NEW YORK — Next fall, when millions of kids tune into Cartoon Network to watch Bugs Bunny, Scooby-Doo and other favorites, they’ll encounter something new — an ambitious campaign to enlist them as foot soldiers in the fight against bullying.
Unlike many bullying programs, this one is geared toward middle school, where experts say bullying is most common. It also targets not bullies nor the bullied, but kids who witness bullying, giving them appropriate techniques to intervene.
“There are specific strategies young people can learn to make a difference in their schools and communities,” said Alice Cahn, Cartoon Network’s vice president of social responsibility. “We decided to focus on those who watch bullying happen — the bystander community — who know they should do something, but are not sure what.”
The anti-bullying campaign includes content in the cartoons themselves, in public service ads, in an online curriculum and on CNN, which will include complementary programming for parents.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has ruled that teenagers may not be locked up for life without chance of parole if they haven’t killed anyone.
By a 5-4 vote Monday, the court says the Constitution requires that young people serving life sentences must at least be considered for release.
Career Survival
with Sgt. Betsy Brantner Smith
Cops and kids are a natural combination. We all know that police officers do so much good in our communities — we’re SROs, child abuse investigators, juvenile officers, and gang specialists. We also work with youth informally, through afterschool programs, Special Olympics, youth sports, Explorer Scouts, and many other worthwhile endeavors. Most cops have a natural ability to deal well with kids, but when you get that call to assist a parent because Johnny is getting out of hand, don’t let complacency turn a citizen assist into a deadly assault.
Editor’s Corner
with PoliceOne Senior Editor Doug Wyllie
“How many kids have been killed by school fire in all of North America in the past 50 years? Kids killed… school fire… North America… 50 years… How many? Zero. That’s right. Not one single kid has been killed by school fire anywhere in North America in the past half a century. Now, how many kids have been killed by school violence?”
courant.com/community/burlington/hc-hc-school-resource-officer-0.artmay05,0,7245983.story
By MONICA POLANCO
Hartford Courant
May 6, 2010
The state police are suspending their school resource officer program, removing 19 troopers from schools and assigning them to patrol duty, to save $1.2 million.
Like a lot of kids her age, Phoebe Prince was a swan, always beautiful and sometimes awkward.
Last fall, she moved from Ireland into western Massachusetts, a new town, a new high school, a new country, a new culture. She was 15, when all that matters is being liked and wearing the right clothes and just fitting in.
She was a freshman and she had a brief fling with a senior, a football player, and for this she became the target of the Mean Girls, who decided then and there that Phoebe didn’t know her place and that Phoebe would pay.