Crain's New York

Council pushes security guard wage bill despite legal questions, business pushback

A City Council bill setting minimum wages for security guards would challenge a decades-old legal precedent that has blocked the city from setting its own wage floors — testing a strategy championed ...
Billings Gazette

Questions raised about training of armed private security guards

COLUMBUS, Ohio - With the number of armed security guards on the rise, experts are calling for more training to prevent incidents such as the shooting of a suspected shoplifter by a Kroger guard last ...
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 ...
WSMV

When can armed security guards draw a weapon?

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Early Monday morning, the corner of Rosa L. Parks Blvd and Commerce St. was closed off as a crime scene where police counted more than 70 bullets. Some of those were shot by ...