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Recent calls for police reform sparked by the death of George Floyd include a controversial demand to remove police officers from schools, but some are speaking out against it. “They should not get rid of school police,” Charlestown High School graduate Danny Munoz said. Munoz believes removing school police would be harmful for students. The 2019 graduate was mentored by…

Some are speaking out against a call to remove police from schools after the Massachusetts Senate passed a bill to make resource officers optional.

As calls to defund the police echo throughout the country, some students and parents in Framingham, Massachusetts, are calling for the removal of school resource officers. Advocates say students of color are disproportionately affected by police in schools and they want the funding to be spent elsewhere. “All we see is overdisciplining of students of color, and they are just…

As more cities and towns vow to make changes, a petition to remove school resources in Framingham is picking up traction.

A 10-year-old has been charged with fourth-degree sex offense and second-degree assault for an incident at an elementary school, the Charles County Sheriff’s Office confirmed.

A cellphone video showing a school resource officer tackling a high school student outside a restroom in Keene, New Hampshire, has made the rounds on social media, prompting concern from some parents and triggering a review by the police department. The incident, which happened on Halloween, shows the pair leaving a restroom before the officer tackles the student from behind....

The community is reacting to video that appears to show an officer’s tough takedown of a student in Keene, New Hampshire, and police say the incident started over vaping.

An 11-year-old Maine girl has been charged with arson after police say she set fire to two bathrooms at an elementary school. The sixth-grader at Paris Elementary School was charged Tuesday by the state fire marshal’s office and released to the custody of her parents. The fires were reported at the school just before 9 a.m. One was in a...

Allegations of sexual assault at a New Hampshire high school appear to have originated from a Snapchat message, not an actual crime, police said Friday after conducting an investigation. Nevertheless, hundreds of Pinkerton Academy students walked out of class Friday morning in protest over the allegations, whose discovery had been announced by the Derry school’s headmaster.

“Disturbing” allegations that multiple students at Pinkerton Academy in Derry, New Hampshire, sexually assaulted classmates are being investigated by the school, academy officials announced Thursday. The allegations were reported to law enforcement and the New Hampshire Division for Children, Youth and Families, Headmaster Timothy Powers said in a letter to the Pinkerton Academy community.

A court has ruled that a Maryland teen who sent a video of herself performing a sexual act has violated the state’s child pornography law.

An former Navy SEAL says he has the solution to stopping school shootings: He’s training dogs to find them and take them down.

The Massachusetts elementary school teacher who was arrested following an investigation into alleged misconduct between he and a student is expected to appear in court Tuesday. Matthew DiMuccio, 32, of Wellesley, was arrested Monday in his home and charged with two counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14, according to Whitman Police Chief Scott D. Benton.

The Massachusetts elementary school teacher who was arrested following an investigation into alleged misconduct between he and a student is expected to appear in court Tuesday. Matthew DiMuccio, 32, of Wellesley, was arrested Monday in his home and charged with two counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14, according to Whitman Police Chief Scott D. Benton.

A Florida sheriff’s deputy killed three relatives, including a child, then got on the department’s radio to say he’d hurt his family before killing himself near a high school Wednesday morning, authorities said.

A Massachusetts middle school teacher charged with secretly recording a 14-year-old student using the bathroom is heading to court. Prosecutors say 38-year-old Scott McDonald is scheduled to be arraigned Monday on charges including photographing sexual or intimate parts of a child. McDonald is a teacher and baseball coach at Bellingham Memorial Middle School.

A teacher in Bellingham, Massachusetts has been arrested two weeks after he was placed on leave for allegedly recording a student in a school bathroom, according to police. Scott McDonald, 38, is charged with photograph sexual or intimate parts of a child and child in sexual act, pose/exhibit. He was released on $1,000 bail and is expected to appear in...

A Michigan mother sued the city of Flint on Tuesday, alleging a school resource officer handcuffed her 7-year-old son for about an hour during an afterschool program in 2015.

An Amesbury, Massachusetts police officer is facing charges for allegedly beating his 14-year-old autistic son.

A student with Down syndrome in Northbridge, Massachusetts, was cheered as he got a special escort to school Tuesday.