School Safety

For the first time, Palm Beach County put metal detectors in four high schools as part of a pilot project. It may take longer to get to class, but proponents says it's worth the wait in the name of safety.

Hundreds of people turned out for a town hall meeting on school safety hosted by the Broward County school district on Monday. The vast majority of speakers railed against a plan to require students to use clear backpacks — a proposal which now may be scrapped.

Local law enforcement agencies in Broward County have been waiting eight months for the school district to reimburse them for the work of school resource officers. After tense negotiations, the Broward School Board agreed to a contract that would substantially increase reimbursement rates.

The Broward County school district contracts with local law enforcement agencies to have a school resource officer (SRO) on every campus. But the district isn't paying the bill for those services, according to one local police chief.

It's incredibly expensive to live in South Florida right now. But officials with Miami-Dade County Public Schools are asking voters to pitch in to help pay teachers and school police. If the tax increase fails, district officials say the effects would be dire.

The gunman who carried out the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School has been ordered to serve 34 consecutive life sentences. Family members of victims say they hope it's a fate worse than the death penalty.

A series of miscommunications from nearly 400 members of law enforcement led to long wait times for those stuck inside Robb Elementary School, where 19 students and two teachers died.

Updated: During a hearing at the Broward County Courthouse on Tuesday, victims of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School poured out their grief and anger — at the confessed gunman and the judicial system.

Miami-Dade County Public Schools is conducting an internal review of student discipline policies after state education officials accused the district of "laundering" its data on school safety.

The shooting last May that killed 19 children and two teachers inside an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, led to pledges by governors in several states to make classrooms safer. Here is a look at where school safety plans stand in several states as students nationwide return to school.

Since Alyssa Alhadeff was murdered at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018, her family has advocated for improving school safety. Now, New York has adopted Alyssa's Law, which pushes schools to install silent panic button systems for students and teachers to alert law enforcement about an emergency.

In the wake of the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, student activists launched an unprecedented national movement to end gun violence. Four years and dozens of mass shootings later, survivors in Parkland marched again — furious at the inaction of lawmakers.