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This morning’s Wall Street Journal opinion page features a chilling reminder of why the War on Terror encompasses more than just overseas militants. The FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Terrorists list, it turns out, includes one domestic zealot from the animal rights movement.

Oregon scientist Michael Conn and ethicist James Parker write that the federal fugitive, named Daniel Andreas San Diego, epitomizes the radical view that animals’ lives are more important than those of people. And, they add, al Qaeda has some competition in the bomb-making department:

public-schools-zero-tolerance SERAPH School Services

A recently published research brief by Child Trends, “Multiple Responses, Promising Results: Evidence-Based, Non punitive Alternatives To Zero Tolerance,” suggests that zero tolerance school discipline policies have not been proven effective by research and may have negative effects, making students more likely to drop out and less likely to graduate on time. Instead, the brief recommends the use of non punitive disciplinary action, such as behavior interventions, social skills classes, and character education.

National Police Week, which occurs each year during the week in which May 15 falls, recognizes the service and sacrifice of U.S. law enforcement. Established by a joint resolution of Congress in 1962, National Police Week pays special recognition to those law enforcement officers who have lost their lives in the line of duty for the safety and protection of others.

National Police Week is a collaborative effort of many organizations dedicated to honoring America’s law enforcement community. Principal organizers of National Police Week are:

• National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (NLEOMF), which sponsors the annual Candlelight Vigil at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial.

Virginia Tech will have to pay the maximum $55,000 fine for violating federal law by waiting too long to notify students during the 2007 shooting rampage but will not lose any federal student aid, the U.S. Department of Education announced Tuesday.

Department officials wrote in a letter to the school that the sanction should have been greater for the school’s slow response to the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. The $55,000 fine was the most the department could levy for Tech’s two violations of the federal Clery Act, which requires timely reporting of crimes on campus.

Dale Yeager a criminal analyst, who worked for the Boulder District Attorney’s office in 1997 on the original murder investigation of JonBenet Ramsey, has released a book on bullying titled “3 Myths About Bullying” What Every Parent and Grandparent Should know to Protect Children and Grandchildren. 

The book focuses on inaccurate information about bullying that Yeager says can endanger children.

“After 20 years working on criminal cases involving child on child violence I have acquired information on the causes of bullying which conflict with many of the ideas parents’ have.” says Yeager.

The book focuses on three myths:

By Mary Beth Marklein, USA TODAY

Registered sex offenders are getting jobs in schools as teachers, administrators, volunteers and contractors, despite state laws that prohibit them from contact with children, a government watchdog report says. And school officials in some states enable misconduct to continue by ignoring red flags during hiring or by covering up the firing of sexual offenders, according to the report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress.

The report, obtained by USA TODAY, is based on a review of 15 cases in 11 states over the last decade involving people with histories of sexual misconduct working in public or private schools. Of those, 11 offenders had previously targeted children, and six abused more children in their new positions.

One of the great frustrations we at SERAPH have had in our work with securing school environments over the past 20 years is the obsession many school board members and school administrators have with security equipment such as cameras.

In this article we will set the record straight about security equipment; when is it useful and when it increases security problems?

After the Columbine massacre on April 20, 1999 the school spent an obscene amount of money on security equipment for the high school. Six months later a student walked through these systems with a loaded handgun. The school administrators didn’t understand school safety before April 20^th and they had learned little after it. Human beings must manage other human beings!

SERAPH CEO – Dale Yeager has seen a rise in calls and emails by people and attorneys’ seeking investigations and legal help during the Christmas and Hanukah season.

“We’ve been receiving numerous requests each day for asset searches, stalking, divorce legal help and debt collection assistance,” states Yeager. “We have received calls and emails from the Main Line, Philadelphia, Bucks County, Delaware County, Montgomery County, King of Prussia, Norristown, Media, Exton, Wynnewood, Levittown, Oxford Valley and even Allentown the Lehigh Valley.”
SERAPH has seen a great increase in the need to resolve legal issues in Southeastern Pennsylvania.
SERAPH provides divorce legal help, asset searches, money finding, people finding, fraud and theft investigations, embezzlement investigations, and help with bankruptcies, civil judgments, investor fraud or defaulted loans.

SERAPH’s Sam Sulliman Appears on “The Kennedy Detail”

The Senior Vice President of SERAPH will appear in the documentary about the Secret Service detail in charge of President Kennedy.The documentary premieres Nov. 22 at 9 PM EST on the Discovery Channel.

After the assassination of the president Sulliman - a retired Special Agent with the U.S. Secret Service – was put in charge of Lyndon Johnson’s detail. His face appears in the infamous picture on Air Force One when LBJ is sworn in with Jackie Kennedy by his side.

Keith Mazza Today show

Keith Mazza a vice president at SERAPH recently appeared on the TODAY show. His segment centered on the fact that Mazza will be the first non Chinese person to become the Grandmaster of a kung fu system.

Keith Mazza is;

• A certified Combatives and Defensive Tactics Instructor through the IPSSC.
• Subject Matter Expert [SME] for various U.S. military organizations since 1995 including the U.S. Naval Special Warfare Command, U.S. Marine Corps and the U.S. Army Special Operations Command.
• A Federal law enforcement trainer for the HIDTA program.