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Peoria Public Schools administrators are considering a plan to equip school resource officers with body cameras.
Some of those complexities include the lack of standardized requirements for body camera footage and the number of police departments — 18,000 — that set their own rules for body cameras.
Training teachers to carry guns. In places where proposals to arm teachers were made or implemented, public debate ensued. Opponents of arming teachers argue that it is not the teachers' job to provide security, [1] but rather the task of the government, as the teachers' employer, to provide a safe work environment. [2]
Today, seven states have laws requiring officers to wear body cameras. But for all the hope and money invested in body cameras as a violence prevention tool, police killings of civilians have ...
Electronic lock on a school arts room in Hong Kong. School security encompasses all measures taken to combat threats to people and property in education environments. [1] One term connected to school security is school safety, which is defined as the sheltering of students from violence and bullying, as well as exposure to harmful elements such as drugs, guns and gang activity. [2]
A police officer wearing a body camera on his uniform. In policing equipment, a police body camera or wearable camera, also known as body worn video (BWV), body-worn camera (BWC), or body camera, is a wearable audio, video, or photographic recording system used by police to record events in which law enforcement officers are involved, from the perspective of the officer wearing it.
In 2014, a student was struck in a U.S. public school an average of once every 30 seconds. [6] As of 2024, corporal punishment is still legal in private schools in every U.S. state except Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, New Jersey and New York, legal in public schools in 17 states, and practiced in 12 of the states. [citation needed].
The policy in Jackson County follows a national trend of equipping police officers with body cameras in response to public pressure for heightened transparency in law enforcement.