Posted on 03/20/2018 5:24:20 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Uh oh. Will this pair be involuntarily committed and their guns confiscated?
I hope they own the homes of the schools staff by the end of this law suit.
“According to Patch.com, the Lacey Township school district follows the Safe Schools Initiative, the Zero Tolerance for Guns Act and also has its own zero-tolerance policy for any students who have weapons in their possession, on or off school grounds.”
There is nothing in either the Safe Schools Initiative (which does deal with assessing threats and possible threats of targeted violence at schools), or the Zero Tolerance for Guns Act (pertains to possession and use of guns on school grounds/property or in a school run/sponsored venue off of school property) that provides legal ground for suspension of student for merely either having a weapon off of school property, or on the public social media posting a picture of themselves with a weapon. Even any “threat assessment” would require putting things in context and not jumping to conclusions. In the Parkland case, unlike this one, there was plenty of behaviors documented about Cruz that would have, should have put the issue of his gun possession in a threatening context. There is nothing about these New Jersey students that provides any such suggestion.
This part of the school’s justification: “also has its own zero-tolerance policy for any students who have weapons in their possession, on or off school grounds” is where it, the school, should run into legal trouble.
I think we need to get allot of this redirected from monitoring by schools, to monitoring by police maybe with some request from schools, but schools needing police-provided legal basis for any actions and schools needing proactive assistance form the police with it.
It would be something like this - school teacher or other officials informs school security official, who checks it out and determines if it warrants asking for the police to check it out; and the police check it out and tell the school security official if they think there is legal standing for any action. Only if action is needed, according to the police, should what alarmed the school be considered a “threat”.
“Threats” should be notified to police and police keep records of all threats reported from the schools.
Two boys who attend target practice at a gun range and outside of school have pictures of themselves in that activity does not in and of itself constitute any “threat” or violate any concern of either the Safe Schools Initiative or the Zero Tolerance for Guns Act.
If I were the boys parents I’d sue, big time. Get the boys college paid for by the school district, 100%.
Except the school district won't pay anything, the local taxpayers will. Besides that, good luck finding a judge that will let them sue.
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