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School Safety
Overview of security measures currently used in schools and their impact
Addressing Threats
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The Problems with Threat Assessments in Schools, National Disability Rights Network, February 2012
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Threat Assessment Systems as a School Safety Strategy, New America, December 15, 2021
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How Should Schools Respond to Threats of Violence?, Philadelphia Inquirer, December 22, 2021
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Threat Assessments: Preventing School Violence or Creating Student Trauma?, k12dive, August 10, 2021
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The Risks of Threat Assessment to Students Are Dire, Youth Today, March 25, 2020
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A 6-year-old Pointed a Finger Gun at Her Teacher and Said ‘I shoot you.’ Her School Called the Cops, The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 11, 2020
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Here’s How ‘Threat Assessments’ May Be Targeting Vulnerable Students, Education Post, December 12, 2019
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Overview of the Comprehensive School Threat Assessment Guidelines, The University of Virginia, June 7, 2019
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Comprehensive School Threat Assessment Guidelines (gateway to resources and research), The University of Virginia
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School Shootings Could Be Prevented If We Intervened in Cases of Troubled Students, NBC News, December 8, 2019
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Who's the Threat? Hundreds of Special Ed Students ID’d as Potential Threats, Searchlight New Mexico, October 15, 2019
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Columbine's Legacy: Experts Say Schools Must Focus More on Solutions, Less on Security, Green Bay Press Gazette, April 17, 2019
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Do the Harder Work - Create Cultures of Connectedness in Schools, Communities for Just Schools Fund, December 5, 2018
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The False Comfort of Securing Schools, New York Times, September 6, 2018
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More Schools Are Using Anonymous Tip Lines to Thwart Violence. Do They Work?, Education Week, August 10, 2018
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Controversial Discipline Program Not to Blame for Parkland School Shooting, Commission Finds, Education Week, July 10, 2018
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Targeted: A Family and the Quest to Stop the Next School Shooter, The Oregonian, June 24, 2018
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Wave Of ‘Red Flag’ Gun Laws Shows Power Of The Parkland Effect, Huffington Post, June 16, 2018
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The Futility of Trying to Prevent More School Shootings in America, The Atlantic, May 21, 2018
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Thwarted School Shooting Plans Don't Get Much Attention. Here's How That Affects School Safety Debates, Education Week, March 7, 2018
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How Schools Should Respond to a Student’s Threats, Education Week, January 9, 2018
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States' Roles in Keeping Schools Safe: Opportunities and Challenges for State School Safety Centers and Other Actors, National Institute of Justice, July 2017
Collateral Consequences of School Hardening
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Students and the Justice System: Collateral Consequences, ACLU of Pennsylvania, 2022
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A Cigarette Only Changes Your Life if You Are Black, ACLU of PA, January 28, 2020
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Protecting Students from Gun Violence. Does "Target Hardening" Do More Harm than Good?, EducationNext, Spring 2019
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Teachers with Guns Won’t Make Our Classrooms Safer. Here’s What Would, Tampa Bay Times, April 17, 2019
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For Students of Color at Parkland, More Security Doesn't Mean More Safety, Huffington Post, January 8, 2019
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Amid Post-Parkland Calls for School-Based Police, $500,000 Settlement Gives Critics Reason for Caution, The74Million.org, October 18, 2018
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The Other Side Of School Safety: Students Are Getting Tasered And Beaten By Police, Huffington Post, September 8, 2018
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Collateral Consequences: The Increase in Texas Student Arrests Following the Parkland and Santa Fe Tragedies, Texas Appleseed, July 2018
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The Push for Harsher School Discipline After Parkland, The Atlantic, March 2018
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Trump Exploits Parkland Shooting by Trying to Push More Kids Out of School, Salon, March 2018
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Civil Rights Groups Sound the Alarm About Safety Plans After Parkland Shooting, Education Week, March 2018
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Why the Debate About School Safety and Increased Security May Exacerbate the School-to-Prison Pipeline, Public Source, March 2018
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Arming Teachers and Putting More Armed Cops on Campus Jeopardizes Safety, ACLU, March 26, 2018
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Conservative Attacks on Discipline Reform Are a Distraction from Meaningful Action to Prevent Gun Violence, Center for American Progress, March 2018
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Even 1 School Shooting Is Too Many. But in Our Panic, We’re Missing a Far More Common Problem We Need to Solve, The74, March 2018
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Do Police Officers in Schools Really Make Them Safer, NPR, March 2018
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The Latest School Safety Proposals Ignore the Experiences of Students of Color, Vox, March 2018
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More Cops In Schools Means More Black Kids In The Criminal Justice System, Huffington Post, February 2018
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Rethinking Law Enforcement Officers in Schools, University of Florida Law, 2016
School Safety Legislation
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How Are States Paying for New School Safety Measures?, EdNote, May 13, 2019
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The State of School Security Spending: Here’s How States Have Poured $900 Million Into Student Safety Since the Parkland Shooting, The 74 Million, August 20, 2018
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Collateral Consequences - The Increase in Texas Student Arrests Following the Parkland and Santa Fe Tragedies, Texas Appleseed, July 2018
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What Does the “Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act” Mean for Students?, ACLU of Florida
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The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act, NAACPLDF, April 2018
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New School Safety Bills Could Make Schools Less Safe for Kids, Child Trends, March 2018
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School Safety Toolkit, ACLU of Florida, 2018
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School Safety Legislation Since Newtown, Education Week, April 2013
Impact of Strict Security Measures
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Schools Should Avoid High-Intensity Live Crisis Drills, article and research paper, American Academy of Pediatrics, September 2020
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What Do We Know About the Effects of School-Based Law Enforcement on School Safety?, Justice and Prevention Research Center, 2018
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School Policing: What the Research Shows, ACLU of Pennsylvania, July 2020
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School Security Measures and Their Impact on Students, National Association of School Psychologists, 2018
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Some School Security Measures Make Kids Feel Less Safe, Reuters Health, September 27, 2018
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School Security Considerations After Newtown, Stanford Law Review Online, February 2013
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Impacts of Metal Detector Use in Schools: Insights From 15 Years of Research, Journal of School Health, 2011
Gun Policy
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The Dangers of Linking Gun Violence and Mental Illness, Time, August 7, 2019
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School Shootings Focus Defies Statistics on Where Children Die From Gunfire, Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, November 15, 2019
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Untangling Gun Violence from Mental Illness, The Atlantic, February 7, 2016
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Columbine at 20: How School Shootings Became 'Part of the American Psyche', The Guardian, April 17, 2019
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Student Surveillance Versus Gun Control: The School Safety Discussion We Aren't Having, American Civil Liberties Union, March 4, 2019
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Students' Bill of Rights for Safer Communities, Student Gun Violence Summit, October 19-21, 2018
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The National Conversation on Gun Violence Must Be Intersectional, Elle, June 1, 2018
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Inaction on School Shootings an Indicator of Larger Neglect of Children's Well Being, EdSource, May 21, 2018
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Call for Action to Prevent Gun Violence in America, Interdisciplinary Group on Preventing School and Community Violence, February 28, 2018
Surveillance
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‘Really Alarming’: The Rise of Smart Cameras Used to Catch Maskless Students in US Schools, The Guardian, March 30, 2022
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An Inside Look at the Spy Tech That Followed Kids Home for Remote Learning — and Now Won’t Leave, the74million.org, September 14, 2021
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As COVID Creeps into Schools, Surveillance Tech Follows, The 74 Million, December 2, 2020
- Facial Recognition Tech Discriminates. Ten Questions to Ask About K-12 Use, Education Week, December 31, 2019
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We Should Be Alarmed By Schools' Creepy Plan to Monitor Students, Guardian, October 18, 2019
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Keeping Students Safe Is a Growth Industry Struggling to Fulfill Its Mission, The Conversation, October 16, 2019
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Under Digital Surveillance: How American Schools Spy On Millions of Kids, The Guardian, October 22, 2019
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The Constant and Expanding Classroom: Surveillance in K-12 Public Schools, North Carolina Law Review, September 1, 2019
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How Much School Surveillance is Too Much?, New York Times, August 27, 2019
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‘Like Minority Report but in Real Life’: Post-Parkland, Schools Turn to Controversial Artificial Intelligence Surveillance to Thwart Potential Shootings, The74Million, January 14, 2019
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Lawmakers Buy Industry Fix to Protect Schools From Guns, Associated Press, October 2, 2018
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Inside the $3 Billion School Security Industry: Companies Market Sophisticated Technology to ‘Harden’ Campuses, but Will It Make Us Safe?, The74million, August 9, 2018
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To Stop School Shootings, Fla. Will Merge Government Data, Social Media Posts, Education Week, July 26, 2018
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School Security is a Rapidly Growing Business, CNN, July 2, 2018
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The Role of Technology in Improving K-12 School Safety, RAND Corporation, 2016
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Body Cameras on School Police Spark Student Privacy Concerns. Education Week, March 3, 2015
Trump Administration Actions
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Trump Administration Recommends Slashing Civil Rights Protections for Students of Color, ACLU, December 19, 2018
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Seven Big Takeaways From Trump Commission's School Safety Report, Education Week, December 18, 2018
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U.S. Department Of Education Is Sued For Withholding Information On Arming Teachers, Huffington Post, October 17, 2018
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Betsy DeVos Won't Be "Taking Any Action" to Stop Schools from Purchasing Firearms with Federal Funding, TeenVogue, September 1, 2018
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Back Mental-Health Support, Don't Arm Teachers, School-Safety Panel Told, Education Week, June 6, 2018
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School Safety Panel Will Not Look at Guns, DeVos Says, AP, June 5, 201