The Right to Remain a Student: Police in California Schools
Today, the ACLU of California released The Right to Remain a Student, a report about the negative effects of police on campus. The report describes how on-campus policing often over-criminalizes students—mostly low-income students of color—and pushes affected students into the school-to-prison pipeline. It also analyzes the most recent Office of Civil Rights data and explores how police interactions on campus have negatively impacted California students. Finally, it finds t
It Is Time to Get Real About School Policing
Interactions between young people and police don’t occur just on the streets of America — they’re happening in our nation’s K-12 schools, too. Increasingly police have become “embedded” in schools, in many cases working there full-time. Many are considered school staff and have daily authority over students, even in situations that have traditionally been seen as everyday disciplinary matters. Little is known about the day-to-day practices of school-based police and about the