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Yahoo
28-03-2025
- Politics
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Bill aims to standardize notifications over school threats in NC
A lawmaker in North Carolina introduced a new bill to standardize how and when parents are notified of threats or emergencies at local schools. This comes in the wake of a Channel 9 report about shooting threats targeting five different Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools campuses. Channel 9′s Evan Donovan has been covering this since the beginning and spoke with the lawmaker, who is also the mother of a CMS student. State Sen. Woodson Bradley's daughter goes to Ardrey Kell High School, so she was one of many parents who first found out about recent threats by seeing our stories. PREVIOUS COVERAGE: Parents upset school district didn't notify them of shooting threats more quickly Former judge gives insight to bond for man accused of threatening Charlotte schools Police now assigned to elementary school after threats Alleged threats against CMS schools spark debate on mental health system Now, Bradley wants to standardize how it's done statewide. 'I want to be crystal clear, this is not a finger-pointing bill, this is a partnership bill,' Bradley said. When we first spoke to Bradley after our investigation, she told us she had already been working on legislation to address threat notifications. This week, she introduced the 'school transparency act.' 'It would be statewide. If a credible threat came in, obviously, the school contacts law enforcement first. Depending on whether there's an active investigation going on, they would notify parents within the hour. If there was an active investigation, parents would be notified within an hour of arrest or as soon as the investigation is concluded,' Bradley said. The bill requires parents to be notified by at least two methods, one of them being a phone call, whenever there's a 'high-level emergency.' The bill leaves that up to school districts to define. Bradley says new policies already implemented by CMS would meet that particular requirement. Donovan got clarification from CMS on Friday. The district says its 'threat communication process map' and 'communication matrix for threats' were newly created in response to February's threats. They show a high-level threat toward a class or school would require notification to the whole school. It would come as an urgent alert, delivered through the ParentSquare app, email, and by phone. 'And, after an emergency, the school has to furnish a report: what they found, where it came from, what they did, how they made everything better. And that's really gonna start bringing this conversation together,' Bradley said. The bill also required districts to file an end-of-year report listing the number of threats, lockdowns, and evacuations. Districts that don't comply could be fined up to $5,000. That money would go into a new school security fund for use statewide. The bill was just referred to its first committee this week. (VIDEO: 14-year-old charged with making mass violence threats against Union County school)
Yahoo
18-03-2025
- Yahoo
Local law enforcement, bars work to keep impaired drivers off the road
Montgomery County deputies are out in force Monday night to make sure people are celebrating St. Patrick's Day responsibly. [DOWNLOAD: Free WHIO-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] News Center 7′s Taylor Robertson is learning how deputies and bar employees are both doing what they can to keep impaired people off the road LIVE on News Center 7 at 11. TRENDING STORIES: Miami Valley set for new Big Boy restaurant following area-wide closures Centerville votes on medical, recreational marijuana sales West Milton man pleads guilty to murder of Dayton toddler Mackenzie Manley, owner of Mack's Tavern, says St. Patrick's Day is their biggest day of the year. Part of the draw to Mack's Tavern is their world record holding Irish car bomb domino that gives everyone in the bar a free drink. 'We do 163 of them, and we hold the world record for it,' Manley said. The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office held an OVI checkpoint Monday night, just a half mile down the road from Mack's Tavern. 'All of our choices on where we conduct checkpoints are based on statistics,' Major Andy Flagg said. Flagg says they have arrested 20 people for OVI so far this year. In 2024 there were 88 OVI arrests, and in 2023 there were 30. 'We've actually issued several citations for moving offenses from those tonight, but so far we've not yielded any for OVI,' Flagg said. According to the Ohio State Highway Patrol, between 2021 and 2024, there were 334 OVI related crashes on St. Patrick's Day weekend. Manley says Mack's Tavern has a policy to curb drinking and driving as well. If you leave your car in their parking lot overnight, they give you $5 off the next time you come in. Manley says it seems to work, and is hoping it saves a life. [SIGN UP: WHIO-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter]
Yahoo
18-03-2025
- Yahoo
Local law enforcement, bars work to keep impaired drivers off the road
Montgomery County deputies are out in force Monday night to make sure people are celebrating St. Patrick's Day responsibly. [DOWNLOAD: Free WHIO-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] News Center 7′s Taylor Robertson is learning how deputies and bar employees are both doing what they can to keep impaired people off the road LIVE on News Center 7 at 11. TRENDING STORIES: Miami Valley set for new Big Boy restaurant following area-wide closures Centerville votes on medical, recreational marijuana sales West Milton man pleads guilty to murder of Dayton toddler Mackenzie Manley, owner of Mack's Tavern, says St. Patrick's Day is their biggest day of the year. Part of the draw to Mack's Tavern is their world record holding Irish car bomb domino that gives everyone in the bar a free drink. 'We do 163 of them, and we hold the world record for it,' Manley said. The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office held an OVI checkpoint Monday night, just a half mile down the road from Mack's Tavern. 'All of our choices on where we conduct checkpoints are based on statistics,' Major Andy Flagg said. Flagg says they have arrested 20 people for OVI so far this year. In 2024 there were 88 OVI arrests, and in 2023 there were 30. 'We've actually issued several citations for moving offenses from those tonight, but so far we've not yielded any for OVI,' Flagg said. According to the Ohio State Highway Patrol, between 2021 and 2024, there were 334 OVI related crashes on St. Patrick's Day weekend. Manley says Mack's Tavern has a policy to curb drinking and driving as well. If you leave your car in their parking lot overnight, they give you $5 off the next time you come in. Manley says it seems to work, and is hoping it saves a life. [SIGN UP: WHIO-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter]
Yahoo
06-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
‘It's really chaotic:' Federal employees in Georgia weigh whether to resign
On Thursday afternoon a judge pushed the deadline for federal employees to accept buyouts to Monday. Employees originally had until midnight to accept the Trump administration's offer. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] Yolanda Jacobs says it's been practically nonstop: the phone calls, the texts, the emails. They come from federal employees nervous and confused about whether they should resign and receive severance pay for the next eight months. 'I have never seen employees in such an uproar and fearful about what's gonna happen from one day to the next,' Jacobs told Channel 2′s Bryan Mims. Jacobs is the president of the local chapter of the American Federation of Government Employees and works at the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention. She's among the roughly 2.3 million federal employees across the country who received an email on Jan. 28 that offered financial incentives to resign. Originally, employees had until 11:59 p.m. on Feb. 6 to resign, but a federal judge in Boston extended the deadline. U.S. District Judge George O'Toole scheduled a hearing for Monday at 2 p.m. to address the program. He did not issue an opinion on the program's legality. TRENDING STORIES: Little Caesar's manager defends sign saying suspicious people will be reported to ICE Souped up: Man accused of using tomato soup barcode to steal expensive items at Walmart Former Chamblee High School employee arrested for sexual battery against 16-year-old student Last week's email from the Office of Personnel Management said employees could decide to resign by Feb. 6 and receive full pay and benefits until Sept. 30. Jacobs said some employees were likely feeling pressured on Thursday to resign. 'It'll be out of fear more than anything,' she said. 'I can't say that it would be a decision that they made with all the working parts there.' A big uncertainty among employees, she said, is whether their jobs would still be cut if they stayed on the job. Employees have also expressed concern about whether they would receive the eight months of pay. 'The panic is there,' she said. 'The panic is really there and if that was the purpose of the email, it worked.' Several employees outside the Peachtree Summit Federal Building declined to discuss the offer, saying they were not allowed to speak to the media. One woman, who works for the Internal Revenue Service, asked to remain anonymous for fear of retribution. She said last week's email blindsided her and her colleagues. [SIGN UP: WSB-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter] 'It's insulting because it doesn't come from inside, it came from outside,' she said. 'Leadership is very quiet. We're not getting direction from anyone.' She's also concerned that the program will push people out 'who can least afford to leave.' 'Those of us who stay, the workload is gonna be crazy,' she said. Across the country, more than 40,000 employees had taken the resignation offer by Thursday. It's unclear how many are from Georgia, which has more than 71,700 federal employees.
