Police officers serving Omaha’s largest public school district will no longer be equipped with electric-shock gloves after the superintendent requested that the initiative be suspended this week, the mayor said.
The prohibition across middle and high schools comes after reporting by The Associated Press disclosed a plan by Immigration and Customs Enforcement to distribute the equipment, known as Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter or G.L.O.V.E. In recent years, select detention centers have also utilized these items.
