Nebraska's largest school district has told police to stop carrying electric-shock gloves — the same kind of device the Trump administration plans to buy — according to a Saturday article by The Guardian.

Omaha Public Schools Superintendent Matthew Ray requested that school resource officers stop using the gloves, and the Omaha police agreed two days later. School resource officers are sworn law-enforcement officers assigned to work in schools, typically under agreements between districts and local police departments.

The move followed reporting that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) planned to issue officers the same devices, known as "generated low output voltage emitter" (GLOVE), which have also been used in some jails in recent years, according to The Guardian.

The gloves activate when an officer presses a button and must touch skin directly to deliver a shock intended to make a person stop resisting. Officers were expected to warn the person first, then maintain contact for up to 15 seconds while the current ran, according to a statement from the Omaha Police Department.

Omaha police used the gloves twice during the 2025-26 school year, including once on a student at a learning center for special education students, The Guardian reported.

The practice drew strong public opposition at an August 17 school board meeting, where roughly 30 people spoke against the gloves and none spoke in favor, The Guardian reported. The dispute mirrors a broader national debate: since 2020, when protests over the murder of George Floyd led several U.S. districts to remove officers from schools, boards have continued to revisit police roles and equipment on campus.

"I can't 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," said Nora Wessel, a senior at Omaha Central High School. "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."

Ray said continued use of the gloves "would be counterproductive to our work together."

Other districts are holding firm. Ken Clary, the police chief of Bellevue, Nebraska, said his officers will keep the gloves.

"I am not comfortable having our officers give up a tool that has repeatedly proven to be safe, effective and less harmful than the alternatives," Clary said in a statement.

Ken Trump, president of National School Safety and Security Services, a consulting firm that advises school districts on security, urged caution before schools adopt such technology. The gloves belong to the broader "less-lethal" category of weapons — which includes stun guns and Tasers — designed to subdue rather than kill.

"Less than lethal doesn't mean low risk," he told The Guardian.

With Omaha and neighboring Bellevue on opposite sides of the question — and the federal government planning to buy the same devices for ICE — the debate over where such tools belong in schools is far from settled.