Set To Stun
Children are being Tasered by school-based police officers. No one knows how often it’s happening or what impact it’s having on students.
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Scott, 17, at home in North Carolina.
Photo Credit: Ben McKeown for The Huffington Post
About This Series
“Set To Stun” is the second in a series of stories about police in schools. It is produced in collaboration with The Hechinger Report.
The Huffington Post has been tracking news reports published since Sept. 1, 2011, that chronicle instances of school-based police officers using Tasers against K-12 students. This research helped inform our story on Tasers in public schools.
Through a series of Google and LexisNexis searches, we found 87 published news reports about kids being Tasered at school. Follow the links for detailed articles. Some reports found via LexisNexis do not appear to be publicly accessible online; in those cases, we have not linked to the original stories.
| Date of Story | State | School |
|---|---|---|
| Sept. 16, 2011 | Wis. | Bay Port High School |
| Oct. 18, 2011 | Fla. | Lakeland High School |
| Nov. 02, 2011 | Conn. | Hamden High School |
| Nov. 22, 2011 | Wis. | Arrowhead High School |
| Dec. 09, 2011 | Fla. | Gray Middle School |
| Dec. 13, 2011 | Pa. | Dieruff High School |
| Jan. 11, 2012 | N.C. | East Forsyth High School |
| Jan. 28, 2012 | Fla. | North Port High School |
| Feb. 16, 2012 | IA | Clinton High School |
| Feb. 28, 2012 | N.C. | Scotland High School |
| Feb. 29, 2012 | Ga. | Rockdale County High School |
| April 03, 2012 | Pa. | Freedom High School |
| April 24, 2012 | Kan. | Heights High School |
| May 05, 2012 | Del. | Glasgow High School |
| May 15, 2012 | Ind. | Mishawaka High School |
| Sept. 06, 2012 | Fla. | Fivay High School |
| Oct. 04, 2012 | S.C. | South Pointe High School |
| Oct. 10, 2012 | S.C. | Georgetown High School |
| Nov. 27, 2012 | Mo. | Lee's Summit West High School |
| Dec. 03, 2012 | Mich. | Portage Northern High School |
| Dec. 13, 2012 | S.C. | Alston Middle School |
| Feb. 09, 2013 | Ga. | Inman Middle School |
| Feb. 25, 2013 | Calif. | Buhach Colony High School |
| March 04, 2013 | Wash. | Spanaway Lake High School |
| March 13, 2013 | Conn. | Pulaski Middle School |
| April 11, 2013 | Conn. | Woodrow Wilson Middle School |
| April 18, 2013 | Md. | Montgomery Blair High School |
| May 05, 2013 | Ga. | Lafayette High School |
| May 20, 2013 | Fla. | Matanzas High School |
| Oct. 05, 2013 | Fla. | Spruce Creek High School |
| Oct. 18, 2013 | Va. | Henrico High School |
| Oct. 23, 2013 | N.C. | Fayetteville High School |
| Nov. 07, 2013 | Neb. | Kearney High School |
| Nov. 12, 2013 | Fla. | Port Charlotte High School |
| Feb. 03, 2014 | TX | Cedar Creek High School |
| Feb. 12, 2014 | IA | Marshall Town High School |
| Feb. 15, 2014 | Va. | Bruton High School |
| Feb. 19, 2014 | Ky. | Daviess County High School |
| Feb. 26, 2014 | Fla. | McLane Middle School |
| March 07, 2014 | Ariz. | Gililland Middle School |
| March 08, 2014 | N.C. | Jacksonville High School |
| April 04, 2014 | TX | Stony Point High School |
| April 10, 2014 | UT | Granger High School |
| Aug. 25, 2014 | IA | Waterloo High School |
| Sept. 12, 2014 | N.C. | Garinger High School |
| Oct. 08, 2014 | N.C. | Bessemer City High School |
| Oct. 18, 2014 | Va. | Clover Hill High School |
| Oct. 23, 2014 | Ariz. | Boulder Creek High School |
| Nov. 07, 2014 | Ind. | Bosse High School |
| Nov. 17, 2014 | Fla. | Spruce Creek High School |
| Dec. 03, 2014 | N.C. | Charles B. Aycock High School |
| Jan. 10, 2015 | Md. | Thomas Johnson High School |
| Jan. 14, 2015 | Calif. | Fairfield High School |
| Feb. 11, 2015 | Ariz. | Mountain Ridge High School |
| Feb. 20, 2015 | Calif. | Mt. Diablo High School |
| March 13, 2015 | Va. | Powhatan Junior High School |
| March 18, 2015 | Fla. | Wildwood Middle High School |
| March 20, 2015 | N.C. | West Iredell High School |
| March 24, 2015 | Mich. | Clarkston's Renaissance Alternative High School |
| April 16, 2015 | Va. | Elko Middle School |
| April 20, 2015 | Ala. | Honeysuckle Middle School |
| April 26, 2015 | Fla. | Naples High School |
| May 15, 2015 | Fla. | Sarasota High School |
| Aug. 21, 2015 | Tenn. | Fulton high School |
| Sept. 16, 2015 | TX | Arlington Heights High School |
| Oct. 15, 2015 | S.C. | Stratford High School |
| Oct. 15, 2015 | S.C. | North Augusta High School |
| Oct. 20, 2015 | OH | Fairfield High School |
| Oct. 22, 2015 | N.C. | Northern High School |
| Oct. 28, 2015 | Ga. | Rockdale County High School |
| Oct. 30, 2015 | Minn. | St. Paul's Central High School |
| Nov. 03, 2015 | TX | Victoria East High School |
| Nov. 25, 2015 | Fla. | Dunbar High School |
| Dec. 04, 2015 | Ky. | Fern Creek High School |
| Dec. 14, 2015 | Mo. | Smith-Cotton High School |
| Dec. 15, 2015 | Fla. | Miramar High School |
| Jan. 29, 2016 | TX | Del Valle High School |
| Feb. 11, 2016 | TX | Shoemaker High School |
| Feb. 24, 2016 | Fla. | Wolf Lake Middle School |
| March 12, 2016 | Calif. | Lincoln High School |
| March 21, 2016 | Ariz. | Sun Valley High School |
| March 29, 2016 | TX | Rockwall High School |
| May 19, 2016 | Fla. | Olympia High School |
| Aug. 11, 2016 | N.C. | Knightdale High School |
| Aug. 29, 2016 | N.C. | E.E. Smith High School |
| Sept. 11, 2016 | Fla. | Leesburg High School |
| Sept. 22, 2016 | Wis. | Middleton High School |
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