There were also talks about stopping the militarization of schools which includes security guards and metal detectors. The city is normalizing militarizing schools and it doesn’t it make it comfortable for students. Metal detectors are understandable because you never know what can happen but in most schools they overdue it and it doesn’t make the school area comfortable for most.

…schools should instead focus on developing resources that can help bring about the support students need such as student support teams and trauma care centers for certain situations that break out in order to provide the proper help instead of using forms of exclusion and punishments to solve problems in schools.

The Netflix series “When They See Us”—a drama based on the prosecution of five innocent teens for a crime they did not commit—demonstrates the many ways in which the law fails to protect the rights of children when police seek to interrogate them. It has now been over three decades since the five teenagers were wrongly prosecuted. Still, New York law continues to fail to protect children under the age of 18. California recently passed a law (SB 203) to protect children in police custody by requiring a consultation with an attorney before a child may waive Miranda rights or be interrogated. New York State should afford children similar procedural safeguards. This is why Trellis and our Trellis Crew supports S.2800/A.5891, which amends procedures required for the custodial interrogation of children and for taking juveniles into custody to provide additional protections.