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School Policing in Allegheny County

School to Prison Pipeline

Over-Policing of Youth

Surveillance

Arming Police

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School Policing in Allegheny County

• Student Arrests in Allegheny County Schools: The Need for Transparency and Accountability 2022

  • ​ACLU finds Allegheny County students are arrested more often than anywhere else in Pennsylvania 2022

  • School police officers say they're a positive force. Some worry they do more harm than good. 2022

  • Pittsburgh Schools Reported Zero Student Arrests While Court Records Show It’s a Discipline ‘Hot Spot’, 2022

• ​Agreement Between Pittsburgh Public Schools And City Police Is Progress But Doesn’t Address Failures Of School District Police, 2023.

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​School to Prison Pipeline

• A new Gwen’s Girls initiative aims to reduce juvenile justice referrals in Allegheny County, 2023.

• Schools Innovate Around Behavior as Suspensions Fall into Disfavor 

• From School to Jail: How Hundreds of Kids Get Arrested in Pittsburgh Schools Every Year

• Report: Disrupting Pathways to Juvenile Justice for Youth in Allegheny County, 2020

• Report: Just Discipline and the School-to-Prison Pipeline in Greater Pittsburgh​

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Over-Policing of Youth

• Letter to Mayor Gainey Regarding Increasing Policing Downtown to address “unruly” youth behavior, 2023

• Letter to City Council Regarding Enforcement for Curfew for Youth under 17, 2023

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Surveillance

• Stopping the use of surveillance software (Gaggle) in Pittsburgh Public Schools, 2021, letter to board, factsheet

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Arming Police

• Pittsburgh Public Schools Police Chief Laments Board Decision Not to Arm School Officers

• Don't Arm School Police