Problems with rising violence and riots and violence in classrooms led to Georgia’s 4th commissioner on juvenile justice. The increase in violence arose from a change of policy in Georgia’s juvenile justice policy to a “sanctuary” policy where staff were discouraged from maintaining safety and security. Georgia is now recognizing reality with its new commissioner [...]
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Two Newnan High School students were arrested for fighting at the school and booked at the Coweta County Jail. According to Coweta County Jail records, Brandi Tiara Johnson and Ashley Woods were both charged with affray, a legal term for fighting. The students were arrested by Student Resource Officers with the Newnan Police Department. According [...]
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This fight was more savage than anything Brooklyn Harper had ever seen at Westlake High School. Two years ago Georgia Department of Education reduced the ability of teachers to maintain a safe environment. According to this article the total number of serious offenses rose in metro school district in direct correlation to DOE’s policy change. [...]
Continue reading about GA. Beating in Atlanta High School raises safety concerns
Georgia Department of Education severely limited the tools teachers can use to intervene. Thus teachers are having to call police to stop the violence in schools. Recently Southern poverty law center filed suit in Alabama against the improper use of pepper spray against Alabama school children. An Albany High School student was pepper sprayed by [...]
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A Northside High School student was arrested following an after-school fight at Warner Robins High School on Friday. Northside student Cierra Gordon, 17, and two other girls approached a 16-year-old Warner Robins student as she was walking to her car in the school’s stadium parking lot about 2:55 p.m., the 16-year-old told a Warner Robins [...]
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Two West Side High School teens were wounded, one critically, in a drive-by shooting Wednesday morning. Now investigators who believe the 16-year-olds were targeted are trying to find out why. The incident happened about 6:40 a.m. at the school’s bus stop on Virginia Avenue near Storey Drive, Macon police spokeswoman Ms. Jami Gaudet said. About [...]
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A Henry County teenager wearing an ankle monitoring bracelet went on a crime spree last week that included two carjackings, an armed robbery and a auto theft, according to police. Chansamone Nhotsombath and his family were the first of many victims who encountered the 16-year old. “He approached me and asked for a ride down [...]
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Georgia staff predicted that there would be increased violence when their intervention practices were changed. Most of the violent reports never get to the newspapers. Even this report where an outside SWAT team was called to quell a disturbance is very cryptic. State juvenile justice officials say a SWAT team was called in to put [...]