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OMAHA, Neb. \u2014 Omaha police agreed this week to stop carrying gloves that can deliver electric shocks to students in the halls of Nebraska\u2019s largest public school district.<\/p>\n

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The Omaha mayor and police chief said in a joint statement Monday that the gloves were used twice in the last school year, including in a program for students with learning deficits. <\/p>\n

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\u201cWe believe it is the safest use-of-force option in the rare times when it is used,\u201d the statement said. <\/p>\n

Then came community pushback and a request from the Omaha Superintendent Matthew Ray that police working in the schools, known as school resource officers, stop using the gloves. Late Tuesday, Omaha Police agreed, saying they \u201cwill adhere to that request.\u201d<\/p>\n

The decision affecting most Omaha middle and high schools came after The Associated Press first revealed Immigration and Customs Enforcement\u2019s plan to give officers the gloves, which are known as G.L.O.V.E.s or Generated Low Output Voltage Emitters. The devices have also been used in recent years by some jails.<\/p>\n

However, the suburban Bellevue police department that patrols two Omaha schools and the large Bellevue district said its officers will continue carrying the gloves. Three other large school districts in the metro area that have Omaha school resource officers assigned to their buildings have not taken action to stop police from using the devices.<\/p>\n

The AP left messages seeking comment Thursday from the Millard, Elkhorn and Westside districts that are also patrolled by Omaha officers.<\/p>\n

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Bellevue schools spokeswoman Amanda Oliver said the district has a great relationship with Bellevue police and doesn\u2019t see a need to alter anything.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got a great communication and dialogue that we have with them consistently. And so for us right now, no changes are being made,\u201d Oliver said.<\/p>\n

Ray said in a school board meeting Monday and in a letter to the public schools community that he\u2019d only learned about the gloves the previous week. But local television station KETV found emails from 2023 when Omaha police notified the districts that the department planned to equip officers with the gloves, and an official with the Omaha district said they were already familiar with them because Bellevue police had them at two Omaha schools.<\/p>\n

Students in all the Omaha area districts have gone back to class over the past two weeks.<\/p>\n

The Omaha Police Department held a news conference last week in which an officer demonstrated the gloves to show how they can help an officer quickly get control of someone who is refusing commands.<\/p>\n

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Omaha police used the gloves twice during the 2025-2026 school year, and Bellevue police have also used them twice in previous years.<\/p>\n

Residents and school board members speak out against the gloves<\/p>\n

At last week\u2019s school board meeting, about 30 people spoke out against police using the gloves. Residents and board members alike said they were appalled at the practice. No one spoke in favor of it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t even imagine walking down the hallway and seeing a peer of mine being electrocuted in a place that is supposed to be a safe space for students,\u201d said Nora Wessel, a senior at Omaha Central High School. \u201cYet, this is now a very real possibility. These are adults we are supposed to be able to trust, but these weapons create a barrier for our students to turn to resource officers when needed.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ken Trump, president of the consulting firm National School Safety and Security Services, said before schools allow police to bring in technology like shock gloves, there should be a careful discussion of questions like how school resource officers will respond to students with disabilities or special medical needs, how parents will be informed, and under what circumstances the gloves can be used.<\/p>\n

\u201cLess than lethal doesn\u2019t mean low risk,\u201d said Trump.<\/p>\n

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Ray said the district recognized long-standing relationships with law enforcement partners and the important role school resource officers have in promoting school safety. Continued use of the gloves \u201cwould be counterproductive to our work together,\u201d Ray said.<\/p>\n

Mayor John Ewing Jr., who helped oversee creating the school resource officer program when he was on the police force, said the department has honored the school district\u2019s decision to \u201copt out.\u201d The Omaha Police Department said officers will continue to carry tasers, batons, OC spray and firearms.<\/p>\n

Most school resource officers were trained to use the gloves<\/p>\n

Most of the Omaha Police Department\u2019s 34 school resource officers had been trained and were allowed to use the gloves, the mayor and Police Chief Todd Schmaderer said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe it is the safest use-of-force option in the rare times when it is used,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n

In 2025, Omaha police agreed to pay Compliant Technologies LLC, which manufactures the gloves, about $66,000 for 40 gloves, according to the contract.<\/p>\n

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Officers were expected to give warning before using the gloves and then touch the person for up to 15 seconds while the electric shock was delivered, the statement said.<\/p>\n

Bellevue Police Chief Ken Clary said his officers will continue carrying the gloves, which they have had for more than three years.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am not comfortable having our officers give up a tool that has repeatedly proven to be safe, effective, and less harmful than the alternatives,\u201d Clary said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The devices activate when an officer presses a button. The gloves must touch someone\u2019s skin directly to produce voltage that causes pain, which is intended to make people stop resisting officers. Unlike Tasers, they do not leave burn or contact marks.<\/p>\n

In the 2025-2026 school year, an Omaha officer used the glove in one case to stop a high school student from another school from trying to escape after fighting with a security guard, according to the statement. In a second case, the glove was used on a student at the Omaha district\u2019s Integrated Learning Center for special education students. Police said that student made verbal threats and threw a chair at a school security guard, striking the guard in the head. The student also punched the guard in the head, according to the statement.<\/p>\n

Bellevue police didn\u2019t immediately have details about when its officers have used the gloves. Clary said the devices have been an extremely effective tool that sometimes make students cooperate on sight even without shocking a student.<\/p>\n

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Omaha Public Schools is the largest district in Nebraska and serves more than 50,000 students, according to its website. The other districts in the metro area are also among the biggest in the state. <\/p>\n

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