Safety Law News for 4/1/13

• A bill that increases the role of school resource officers in Colorado schools was unanimously approved by the state Senate.

•  Two counties in Alabama seek to amend the Alabama constitution to create funding to pay the costs of providing a school resource officer.

•  Officials from Newtown, Connecticut, will provide a keynote address at the National Association of School Resource Officers’ (NASRO) 23rd annual School Safety Conference, July 14 -19, 2013, in Orlando, to discuss the response to and recovery from the December school shooting tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

• The Oklahoma House of Representatives has approved a bill that would allow certified volunteers to act as reserve school resource officers.

•  Northern Ohio communities and educators are seeing the benefits of school resource officers.