- Marijuana problems in Colorado schools increase with legalization. More students and younger kids are bringing marijuana to schools.
- Officials in Kennebunk, Maine consider their school resource officers to be “more than a police presence in our schools.”
- Indiana State Attorney General Greg Zoeller wants more funding for school resource officers.
- Officials in Irvine, California and Fall River, Massachusetts are bucking the trend of reducing budgets and reducing the number of officers dedicated to serving schools. Irvine officials are adding an additional school resource officer this year to serve Irvine Unified School District’s middle schools. Fall River officials are adding ten new school resource officers.