BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — Just a day after the Kern County Sheriff's Office announced the suspension of the carotid hold the Bakersfield Police Department is now doing the same. The department said in a ...

More and more school districts and local officials around the country are considering revising their student disciplinary policies. The efforts reflect a change in the approach to fostering a positive ...

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced last week that the Department of Education would be initiating a push to “address the possible inappropriate use of restraint and seclusion in our nation’s ...

The newly reported details of patient deaths associated with restraint or seclusion spanned from 2020 through 2023. The deaths happened at hospitals in every state except Alaska, with some individual ...