The Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability aims to promote community engagement and accountability of law enforcement in Chicago.

Elena Gottreich has been named the City of Chicago's new Deputy Mayor of Public Safety.

Ronnell Higgins has been promoted to the role of Associate Vice President for Public Safety and Community Engagement at Yale University.

The Ohio Student Safety Advisory Council will work to identify school safety concerns and develop security strategies to address them. Students across Ohio can take part in the council and determine how to engage their peers in school safety.

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Police Department updated community service officer uniforms to improve approachability in response to a third-party review of the campus climate.

Supporting and managing mental health, substance abuse and other public health and safety emergencies are prioritized by Department of Justice safety grants totaling $34 million.

The more than 40, all-proprietary security staff, screeners, emergency room officers and central dispatch personnel at Hackensack Meridian Health Palisades Medical Center have become an integrated part of the 1,400 team members that work at the campus.

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) is establishing a Transit Public Safety Advisory Committee (PSAC) to re-envision transit safety and explore community-based approaches to policing.

A veto-proof majority of Minneapolis, Minn. City Council members announced their commitment to disband the city’s police department and invest in community-led public safety measures, according to a report by The Appeal. 

“I take a lot of lessons from the community policing model, which is policing through customer service,” says Ryan King, Manager of Safety, Security and Emergency Management for Central Florida Health (CFH).