District had used the devices twice in the prior school year
Superintendent Matthew Ray requested Tuesday that police officers assigned to Omaha Public Schools stop using electric shock gloves in the district’s middle and high schools.
Ray said in a letter to the public schools community that he had only learned about the gloves the previous week. The first day of school was Wednesday.
Mayor John Ewing said the superintendent asked to halt the program this week, according to the Associated Press.
The Omaha Police Department held a news conference the previous week at which it demonstrated the glove. Police said the device quickly achieved compliance and control with little to no force, and that school resource officers had used the gloves twice during the 2025-2026 school year.
The halt came after The Associated Press first reported on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s plan to give officers the gloves. The devices, known as G.L.O.V.E. — Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter — have also been used in recent years by some jails.
It was not immediately known whether other school districts have used the gloves.