Helen Zelon

New York City’s School Safety Agents are charged with school security — but are not under the direct supervision of the NYPD, which hires them, or school personnel, whose buildings and communities they serve. The New York Civil Liberties Union’s School Safety Act aims to address the accountability gap — but hasn’t yet been passed by the City Council.

To learn how school security went wrong at one Lower East Side school, resulting in the arrest of an eighth-grader who was handcuffed to a chair at the local police precinct until her parents could fetch her out, read the article City Limits weekly.

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