• Mississippi Lt. Governor is asking lawmakers to OK $7.5 million to create a grant program to increase the number of law enforcement officers in public schools across the state.
• The Indiana Attorney General is putting his support behind a recently filed bill in the State Senate that would offer state funded grants to school districts hiring resource officers.
• In the wake of last month’s Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Connecticut, a Tennessee County Board is making plans to hire 15 new SROs at an estimated cost of $725,000 per year.
• The Virginia legislature is considering legislation that would require school divisions and law enforcement agencies to work together to put a uniformed, full-time school resource officer in every school.