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Guest commentary: Southeastern University thanks local law enforcement Kent Ingle On Friday, the safety of Southeastern University was put to the test. Within minutes of receiving a threatening email, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office dispatched officers to our campus and members of our Sentinel program mobilized, ready to protect our community. Although Friday’s events transpired without casualty, it reminded us that even in uncertain times, we must do everything we can to ensure the safest learning environment for our students, faculty and staff. Over the course of the year, educational ...

Our View: Law enforcement union should join reform efforts Instead, the Maine Association of Police is digging in to defend officers who may be charged with misconduct. By The Editorial Board Share The most significant American death in this pandemic year may turn out to have had nothing to do with COVID. It was the Memorial Day killing of George Floyd, a slow-motion suffocation in front of numerous witnesses on a busy Minneapolis street. It was perpetrated by a white police officer who put his knee in the back of a prone man’s neck and calmly let a life slip away, as a bystander’s cell...

Maine police union group to start legal defense fund for officers It's partly in response to the killing of George Floyd in May at the hands of Minneapolis police, as well as the widespread social uprisings and scrutiny of police conduct that followed. Share A statewide police association plans to start raising more than $100,000 a year to help defend Maine officers who may be charged with crimes or sued for conduct on duty, a response to high-profile shootings in other states that led to charges against police. Dubbed the Sentinel Program, the new legal protections provided by the Maine Ass...

But most people want to return to some sense of normalcy, whatever that might be for stoneman douglas for the rest of the year. but i would say probably by monday when we go back to the full schedule, then it will feel like the normal school with more security on campus. >> i want to get you to weigh in on the debate about how to prevent something like this from happening again. as you know, president trump is among those who floated this very controversial idea of arming some teachers. he says only those who are highly trained. do you agree with that idea? do you think that he could have a po...

Take steps to create another layer of security to combat a couple of issues. we want to provide prevention and we also want to be able to respond rapidly to prevent, of course, loss of life and injury. so we partnered with the polk county sheriffs office. for the last two years, we've had a contractual partnership where they provide safety and security on our campus every single day, but with these new threats, we determined that we needed another level and so we created this sentinel program. it's a one-of-a-kind program that enables authorized, highly qualified, highly trained faculty member...