Omaha student Nora Wessel of NEw Voices Nebraska told the OPS School Board that electric-shock gloves undermine the sense of safety students should have at school and could make students less willing to turn to resource officers for help.
Omaha police school resource officers have already used electric-shock G.L.O.V.E. devices in local schools, including on a student at an Omaha Public Schools special education program.
OPD says the devices are intended as a less-forceful alternative to tasers and that 29 of its 34 school resource officers are trained to use them. The same G.L.O.V.E. technology is also at the center of a national controversy after ICE announced plans to spend up to $20 million on thousands of the devices for officers and agents.
