Q: Are schools safe? TV station: Let's get one locked down and find out

So I guess the rubber gun/abandoned backpack in the airport story is on hold?

Where the reporter went wrong is when they started not following the verbal commands of the school staff. A school is a public building, but it also acts like a private building. An example is you cannot film faces inside of a classroom. If this was a true public building, you could film anything and everything, but there are limits of what can and cannot be done.

There are many levels and forms of school security. You can have people swipe drivers licenses or have them enter telephone numbers and wear stickers, but people need to understand that when they are there, they are the guests of the school. They cannot do whatever they want or go wherever they want.

I would also not underestimate that this stunt stopped medical services to students for an extended period of time. Some students get insulin shots during the day. Under a lockdown, I don't think they would have gotten them until the lockdown was lifted.

 

This guy got a school locked down too:

 

This has been done before. http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20061004/NEWS01/310040042/TV-employee-can-t-get-past-school-security
Usually ends badly.
This is absolutely trespassing.

 

good

 

There should be signage at the school telling all visitors to report or check into the front office.

It's just like posting property line signs. You can trespass without a verbal warning.

 

You are allowed access to certain areas of the school as a visitor. If you go where you are not allowed access, you are trespassing.

As I stated earlier in this thread, if you feel so confident in your position, go into a school, check in, then walk into a classroom when you said you needed to go to the bathroom. Debate with the police officers what trespassing is.

 

My understanding of the law is the same as yours.

 

I work in a school.

Go test your theory out.

It would be up to the school division to press charges if you if you are removed, but they have the right to.

Now if the school resource officer slaps the cuffs on you, then it is automatically a police matter. But what do I know?

But keep attacking the poster.

 

Maybe you guys should read link above link.