END ZERO TOLERANCE

• No Police in Schools: A Vision for Safe and Supportive Schools in California, ACLU of CA,  2021

• The End of School Policing, California Law Review, 2021

• Which Districts Have Cut School Policing Programs?, Education Week, 2021

• The Movement for Safe and Just Schools Map

• Here Are the People Minneapolis Schools Hired to Replace Campus Police After George Floyd’s Death — And Why Some Are Raising New Red Flags, The 74 Million, 2020

• How To Get Police Out of Schools, And Why It Matters, Mashable, 2020

• After Ending Police Contract, Minneapolis Schools Consider Former Cops for Revamped School Safety Role, The 74 Million, 2020

• Why Black Girls Can’t Wait for Police-Free Schools, Blavity, 2020

• Police-Free Schools? This Suburban Minneapolis District Expelled Its Cops Years Ago, The 74 Million, 2020

• Some Schools Are Cutting Ties with Police. What's Next?, Chalkbeat, 2020

• 'Police Do Not Belong in Our Schools.' Students Are Demanding An End to Campus Cops After the Death of George Floyd. Time, 2020

• The End of Police in Schools, US News and World Report, 2020

• Amid Uprisings, Schools Consider Terminating Their Contracts With Police, Huffpost, 2020

• Fueled by Protests, School Districts Across the Country Cut Ties with Police, Washington Post, 2020

• Don't Defund All Police, But Keep Police Out of Schools, USA Today, 2020

• Should Police Be in Pittsburgh Schools?, Public Source, 2020

• Movement for Police-free Schools Reaches Philadelphia, Chalkbeat, 2020

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Sample Policy

Removing Police from Schools

• Community Not Cops Campaign: Creating Safe, Supportive, Police-free Schools
  In 2021, the Dignity in Schools Campaign released a set of policy recommendations for schools, districts, states and federal policy-makers to end the regular presence of law enforcement in schools. Read the policy recommendations and the resource guide. For a broader description of school discipline language to help end school push out, see the Model Code on Education and Dignity (Anchor to model code on education and Dignity in Educators toolkits)

 

• Some school districts have decided to end school policing arrangements by a school board voting to close school district police departments (e.g. Oakland, CA) or to terminate School Resource Officer (SRO) program contracts with local police departments (e.g. Minneapolis, MN). In some cities, school policing programs were ended by the city council removing SROs from school budgets (e.g. Rochester, NY, article and budget). Oakland's Black Organizing Project has developed the People's Plan for Police-Free Schools (implementation proposals).

• Oakland, California – Students parents and parents can file a formal complaint about the behavior of school security.  From Report Card to Criminal Record: The Impact of Policing Oakland Youth describes the campaign that led to the policy.