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National Trends

• Civil Rights Data Collection, Data Snapshot: Exclusionary Discipline, U.S. ED, 2021

• Criminalizing Kids, Center for Public Integrity

• Students with Disabilities are More Likely to Be Restrained or Arrested at School, 2018, The Mighty

• US Education in 2017 in 10 Charts, Chart #3: Black Students Are More Likely to Attend Schools With Police and Be Arrested at School, Education Week, 2017 

• Which Students Are Arrested the Most?, 2017, EdWeek (interactive bar graph comparing states)

• Kids in Cuffs: Is Security in Schools Going Too Far? (story, and data portal; NBC News investigation, February 20, 2017)

  • Uneven Rates of Discipline in Philadelphia​, NBC10

  • Policing the Schools: Officers Working With Thousands of Local Students Lack Formal Guidelines, NBC Washington Channel 4, 2017

  • I-Team: Policing the Schools: Minority Students More Likely to Be Suspended or Arrested, NBC New York Channel 4, 2017

  • Off-the-Books Suspensions May Enable Some Schools to Skirt State Law, NBC Boston Channel 10, 2017

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Local Trends

• Students of Color are More Likely to be Arrested in School. That May Change. the New York Times, 2019

• Study: Cops in Connecticut Schools Increase Arrests, No Safety Impact, New Haven Register, 2019

• Student Safety Act Report, and a description of the Student Safety Act, New York Civil Liberties Union, 2019

• Collateral Consequences: The Increase in Texas Student Arrests Following the Parkland and Santa Fe Tragedies, Texas Appleseed

• ACLU Releases New Data on Stockton Unified’s Pattern of Wrongly Arresting Students

  • Education Equity Coalition's Report Card

  • Stockton Unified School District Data

• From School to Jail: How Hundreds of Kids Get Arrested in Pittsburgh Schools Every Year, Public Source, 2017

• She Recorded Her Classmate's Arrest, Then Got Arrested, Too, January 2017, EdWeek

• Student Arrests in Pennsylvania: A Closer Look

• Arrested at School, six part series on police in schools, NBC San Francisco Bay Area

• New Data Show Outsized Police Role and Racial Disparities in School Discipline, plus arrest data for NYC for first and second quarters of 2016

• ACLU: Over-Policing in Stockton Unified Remains Rampant, with 3,000 Police “Incident Reports” Each Year, plus complaint and settlement in the case

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Is arrest data reliable?

• Exclusive: Pittsburgh Schools Reported Zero Student Arrests While Court Records Show It’s a Discipline ‘Hot Spot’, The 74million, 2022

• Student Arrests in Allegheny County Public Schools: The Need for Transparency and Accountability, ACLU- PA, 2022

• Student Arrest Records A ‘Disturbing Mess’ At Illinois School Districts, Illinois Newsroom, 2020

• Jefferson County Public Schools’ (Kentucky) 117 Student Arrests Only Part of Story, 2016, The Courier-Journal

 

Arrests of young children

• Handcuffs in Hallways: Hundreds of Elementary Students Arrested at U.S. Schools, CBS News, 2022

• Raising the Minimum Age for Prosecuting Children, National Juvenile Justice Network, 2022

• In Some States, Your 6-year-old Child Can be Arrested. Advocates Want That Changed, National Public Radio, 2022

• Florida Officer Fired After Arresting Two 6-Year-Olds at Elementary School, Huffpost, 2019

• More Than 30,000 Children Under Age 10 Have Been Arrested in the US Since 2013: FBI, ABC News, 2019

 

Citations and ticketing

• Ticketing Misbehaving Students Is Counter-productive, Critics of That Practice Argue, Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, 2022

• The Price Kids Pay, ProPublica 2022

• Ticketed at School: Investigating How Police Ticket Students for Minor Misbehavior, [a-v of event], ProPublica, 2022

• Students and the Justice System - Collateral Consequences, ACLU of Pennsylvania, 2022

• A Cigarette Only Changes Your Life if You Are Black, ACLU of PA, 2020

• Student Citations at Lancaster County Public Schools Can Have Lasting Consequences, Lancaster News, 2019

• Tickets for 10-Year-Olds, Texas Tribune, 2010