Senate Concurrent Resolution
No. 33
CHAPTER 129
Relative to School Safety Month and Yellow Ribbon Week.
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Filed with
Secretary of State
September 09, 1994.
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LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SCR 33, Hughes.
School Safety Month and Yellow Ribbon Week.
This measure would proclaim October as School Safety Month and October 16 to 22 as Yellow Ribbon Week. The measure would encourage all schools to participate in appropriate activities during School Safety Month to recognize the importance of conflict resolution and violence eradication and would encourage the wearing of yellow ribbons during Yellow Ribbon Week to demonstrate a commitment to school safety.
Digest Key
WHEREAS, Some school grounds today have become war zones for children; and
WHEREAS, Every year 3,000,000 thefts and violent crimes occur on or near school campuses according to the National Crime Survey; and
WHEREAS, Between 1980 and 1989 more than 11,000 persons died in this country as a result of homicides committed by youths of high school age using firearms, cutting instruments, or blunt objects; and
WHEREAS, The California Constitution guarantees students and staff the right to be safe and secure in their persons on public primary, elementary, junior high, and senior high school campuses; and
WHEREAS, There is a need for violence prevention strategies that effectively deal with individual and cultural relations and that include the collaboration of parents, community members, and law enforcement; and
WHEREAS, School districts, in conjunction with the Senate Subcommittee on School Safety, will continue to strengthen their efforts to reduce and prevent violence through unity, harmony, and collaboration; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly thereof concurring, That the state proclaims October as School Safety Month and the week of October 16 through 22 as Yellow Ribbon Week; and be it further
Resolved, That the Legislature encourages all schools to participate in appropriate activities during School Safety Month to recognize the importance of conflict resolution and violence eradication; and be it further
Resolved, That the Legislature encourages parents, pupils, teachers, other school personnel, and members of the community to wear yellow ribbons during the week of October 16 through 22 to demonstrate their commitment to school safety and in recognition of pupils who have lost their lives as a direct result of school violence.