Modesto City Schools will form an eight-member security team by next fall to patrol its high schools. 

Families of two of the 20 first-graders killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting are suing the town of Newtown, Conn., and its board of education, for inadequate school security. 

Civilian security personnel at public schools in Delaware could carry stun guns and other nonlethal weapons.

A school district has sued the city of Taft, California, claiming a school shooting two years ago would not have happened if a police officer was on duty.

The families of nine of the 26 people killed and a teacher injured at the Sandy Hook Elementary School filed a lawsuit against the manufacturer, distributor and seller of the rifle used in the shooting.

The parents of 10 children killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School have filed or soon will file notices in probate court that they plan to make wrongful death claims on their children’s behalf.

A Methuen, Mass school will soon have an automated system to detect and track a gunman on campus.

School districts planning new school buildings would have to include security measures in the designs, under legislation being considered in the Ohio House.

 Chief Hector Rodriguez believes so much in the Santa Ana Unified School District (SAUSD) and the safety of the children who attend SAUSD schools that he sends his own children to school there. 

1,200 firearms, knives, boxcutters, razors and other dangerous objects confiscated from NY city students in the 2013-14 school year,