- The San Leandro Police Department was awarded a $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice, which will be used to hire two school resource officers for the San Leandro School District’s high schools and middle schools.
- Spokane, Washington school officials agreed in early 2013 to allow district-employed school resource officers to carry guns in schools. Yet not all school resource officers are certain they want to carry guns, at least not at their current pay.
- In Indiana, the Crawfordsville Police Department and Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office have recognized how well students receive police officers in the schools.
- Pennsylvania legislators have introduces three bills on school safety, House Bill 896, House Bill 715, and Senate Bill 1193.
- Six years after budget constraints forced the Salinas, California Police Department to cut the School Resource Officers program; it received a $3.4 million federal grant to reinstate the program for three years.