Trial of security guard from Coeur d’Alene Republican town hall begins with debate on freedom to dissent versus freedom to ‘command’

After Kootenai County Sheriff Bob Norris told Hayden resident Ben Stallings to leave a chaotic and politically charged Republican legislative town hall, the only thing Stallings said he was concerned ...

Security guard found guilty in CdA town hall battery case

A Coeur d’Alene jury convicted the leader of a private security team of battery for pushing a woman and removing a man from a Republican town hall in February.
KSTP-TV

Security guard takedown exposes questions over $11 million contract with Metro Transit

A violent takedown involving private security guards and a 22-year-old man outside a Metro Transit light rail station in Minneapolis is now the subject of at least one “active investigation” after 5 ...
InForum

Minnesota security guard assaulted by ER patient dies of injuries

The 43-year-old woman was assaulted by a patient escaping from a hold on him in the emergency room at M Health Fairview Lakes ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

De-escalation skills, not guards, needed in Tasmanian hospitals, nurses' union says

The nurses' union in Tasmania wants to see private security guards in public hospitals replaced with support officers trained in de-escalation, after a review found "overwhelming dissatisfaction" ...
Governing

Private Security Guards Are Filling Gaps in Policing (But Not All of Them)

Octavia Egeonu talks with Michael Igo, the interim police chief in Dallas. Egeonu's husband Anthony was shot and killed last month while working as a security guard at a CVS. Police departments ...