- Police in Gainesville, Georgia, are asking the school board to accept a proposal that would allow school resource officers to store assault rifles in the schools while on duty.
- A school resource officer is forced to resign after incorrectly believing that she needed probable cause to assist an administrator searching a student with a gun.
- In Georgia, the Murray County Schools have partnered with the Murray County Sheriff’s Office to provide its students and staff with school resource officers, all of whom are certified deputies or police, in all of its elementary, middle and high schools.
- School Resource Officers in New York are receiving training to identify behavioral health risks and initiate intervention by school counselors and administrators as determined by school district policy.
- The University of Arkansas-Criminal Justice Institute is providing training in hostage negotiation for school resource officers in the state.