LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Making bomb threats. Possessing a gun on campus. Preventing different college students.
These have been a few of the tons of of fees officers with the Clark County Faculty District Police Division filed in opposition to juveniles within the 2024-2025 college yr, in response to knowledge 8 Information Now obtained.
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The Clark County Faculty District launched the numbers after a public information request, displaying that 377 juveniles have been arrested.
A scholar at Mojave Excessive Faculty was charged on March 14 with utilizing a stun gun for a function apart from self-defense.
A scholar at Mojave Excessive Faculty was charged on March 14 with utilizing a stun gun for a function apart from self-defense. (KLAS)
In February, a scholar at Walter Johnson Junior Excessive Faculty and a scholar at Dell H. Robison Center Faculty have been taken into custody for making false bomb threats.
CCSD police have seized weapons, ammunition, and medicines
The report 8 Information Now obtained additionally confirmed kids have been arrested for possessing medication and weapons, burglarizing companies, and arson.
“Communication is critical in making sure that our students, our families, everyone in the community is safe,” CCSD Superintendent Jhone Ebert stated.
The Clark County Faculty District has seen a decline over the previous three tutorial years within the variety of weapons police have confiscated. But, college students nonetheless handle to sneak in firearms on campus.
“If you see something, even just in a conversation between two students, that would affect our schools. That you call Safe Voice, that you call the school, speak with a principal. Speak with a front office,” Ebert stated.
The identical knowledge the district despatched to eight Information Now confirmed CCSDPD issued citations to 3006 juveniles through the 2024-2025 college yr, which included college students who attended personal and constitution faculties.
Because the college yr started Aug. 11, CCSDPD has confiscated three weapons. Two have been situated exterior of CCSD campuses, however one was discovered at Bruner Elementary Faculty.
