The village is installing ”Drug Free School Zone” signs near all schools to warn drug dealers that state law provides for situations in which those convicted of selling narcotics within 1,000 ...

Signs denoting the drug-free school zones represent one community activity spurred by the law. Signs have not been erected in most counties but are on order from the state Department of Education ...

In 1970 a new trend in narcotics law began to spread: Legislators began creating Drug Free School Zones, imposing harsh penalties on drug crimes committed within them. The theory behind these ...

A common sense kind of thing. So, when a special Du Page County state’s attorney’s task force recommended that Drug Free School Zone signs be erected around school locations, Sabatino and his ...

Spady Elementary School in Delray Beach when police ... Many schools have put up white-and-blue signs designating drug-free zones. The program aims to set up "a safe area where it's especially ...

Drug-free school zone signs in Anne Arundel County will soon include a phone number residents can call, under legislation the General Assembly is expected to pass this week. The Senate on Thursday ...

For years, school zones in Maine have been designated ... Under the law, the safe zones would be marked with a sign that reads “Drug-Free Safe Zone, increased penalties for drug crimes committed ...

They also reported finding in the home a borough “Drug Free School Zone” sign. Mathew Cantor, 20, of Delran, and Jordan Thomas, 20, of Basking Ridge, were each charged with possession of 50 ...

It's also a case study in how police and prosecutors use drug-free school zones, which exist in all 50 states and are supposed to protect schoolchildren from drug pushers, to threaten drug ...

Drug dealers are getting signs from a Brooklyn neighborhood – and they mean stay out. A Masonic group is donating 40 “Drug-Free School Zone” signs to cops in the 81st Precinct, who will make ...

I was happy to read that the Connecticut Sentencing Commission unanimously recommended shrinking drug-free zones from 1,500 to 200 feet from public school property [Dec. 20, Page 1, “Drug-Free ...

assuming the governor signs it, would not apply retroactively. Gill says there are currently around 400 inmates in Tennessee state prisons serving sentences for drug-free school zone offenses—a ...