Police, schools work together on students' criminal records

The Burlington Standard-Press continues to report on an interesting standoff between the Burlington School District and the Town of Burlington police department.

The fight revolves around an underage drinking party in the town. Twenty juveniles were ticketed at the party, including some who go to Burlington schools.

After learning about the party, the school district asked the town police for the names of the kids at the party. Police officials refused, saying they could not legally turn over the names of underage students.

Burlington school officials responded that the Burlington city police have no problem turning over the names. Town police refused and the issue is at a standstill.

We checked with Racine Unified to find out if the district works with city police to get the names of kids ticketed or arrested outside of school hours. The answer: Yes they do.

Here's a response from Al Days, Unified's security officer:

Given the fact that we have over 40 officers working in the school system, important information is shared. We do have an informal information exchange about students involved in criminal activity especially if the student could be violent of a possible danger to other students.

It's unclear if that applies to underage drinking, and it is different given the number of city police in Racine's schools. But it seems Racine police and Unified do work together to talk about students' arrests - in or out of school.