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Police are writing more crime reports at three local schools than almost any other location in the county. The Island Packet and The Beaufort Gazette analyzed every non-traffic crime report filed in Beaufort County in 2014 and ranked the addresses where the most reports were written. The county’s two Walmarts

All week, police and officials from juvenile probation have gathered in Lewiston for "Policing the Teen Brain" training. The idea is to improve interaction between police officers and the youths they deal with daily.

Children are the future of Cincinnati’s collaborative agreement. That was a main theme coming out of a community policing roundtable Wednesday morning.

If the city wants to solve its crime problem, it needs to improve the way it handles juvenile criminals. That was the re-occurring theme of a police roundtable of elected officials, community activists and police officers held Wednesday....

Public Integrity investigation revealed Virginia’s high rate of arrests Legislators should rewrite state codes to reduce Virginia’s high rate of arresting young students, child legal-rights advocates argue in a new report. Staff at the Virginia Legal Aid Justice Center contend that the commonwealth’s existing statutes allow police to easily intervene

Video: U.S. Department of Education panel discussion about School Resources Officers and the role of the law in our schools. Lisa Thurau from SFY is a member of this panel.

During an August town hall meeting with local faith leaders, Fresno police Chief Jerry Dyer promised to start tracking school resource officer citations by race and ethnicity.

Boston school police have revived their push to carry pepper spray on the job, saying they must protect themselves and others from urban violence that spills onto school grounds.

It costs Hamilton County taxpayers about $221 per day just to detain a youth offender.

Brian Lumpkin is interviewed about officer training Strategies for Youth is doing in Elkhart County, IN.

As Officer Mike Daniliuk heads towards the basketball court at the Frisoli Youth Center, he greets several black teens with a friendly handclasp-turned-shoulder bump.

Only 12 states mandate that school resource officers receive student-specific preparation.

Lisa Thurau is interviewed on MSNBC about training standards for School Resource Officers after students at Spring Valley High hold a rally in support of the fired S.C. Deputy.

Lisa Thurau appears on Al Jazeera America to discuss discipline in schools following the Spring Valley High School arrest incident in South Carolina.

Lisa Thurau on ‘CTV News Channel’ on the Conduct of the School Resource Officer in Spring Valley High School, South Carolina.

By now you’ve probably seen the video. A school resource officer violently flips, slams and drags a student out of her chair as her classmates watch, some filming the incident on their phones. Immediately after the video went viral, social media erupted in a flood of questions about the presence

Lisa Thurau is interviewed on CNN about police acting as SROs (School Resource Officers) after the video of a violent classroom arrest in South Carolina goes viral.

The line between security in the schools and discipline has been blurred by the presence of thousands of officers, experts say.

Law enforcement officers and juvenile probation officers from Howard County will be gathering together to improve interactions with youth through the Policing the Teen Brain training in Kokomo.

Michaela Pereira on CNN interviews Lisa Thurau from SFY about the effects of hand cuffing school age children and how training of school officers can be improved.

Lisa Thurau appears on ‘CNN Newsroom’ To Discuss ACLU Suit Against Sheriff Who Handcuffed Disabled Child in Covington, KY.