Tag: school resource officer
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Magistrates, lawyers discuss youth, guns and responses to school safety
Adams County Magistrate Michal Lord-Blegen was a school administrator in Aurora when two teenagers killed 13 people and themselves at Columbine High School in 1999. The massacre was a lens through which she viewed her subsequent work as a principal and as a lawyer. “We’ve got a lot of kids with guns,” said Lord-Blegen earlier this…
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Fountain school resource officer awarded $10K for work with annual kids Christmas drive
Don Klinge, a school resource officer at Jordahl Elementary School in Fountain, thinks of the students as part of his extended family. “I have 563 grandkids,” said Klinge, a Fountain police corporal who has been a familiar, smiling face at Jordahl for seven years. “You don’t want to come into Jordahl and mess with one…
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Nothing wrong with officer’s body-language testimony, justices rule 6-1
A school resource officer’s interpretation of a boy’s body language was an acceptable piece of testimony in the trial of the boy’s relative, the Colorado Supreme Court decided by 6-1 on Monday. “Certain types of body language, like the myriad hand signals of a Colorado Rockies third base coach or the gestures of the conductor…