- A state legislature joint committee in Arizona approved funding for 118 school safety resource officers on campuses around the state. The School Safety Program Oversight Committee agreed to spend nearly $12 million on the program for the upcoming school year.
- In Georgia, a new law went into effect July 1 that allows school employees to be designated to have access to firearms.
- School resource officers in Wilmington, North Carolina, make up the 22nd class of law enforcement officers that have graduated from the 40-hour program on dealing with a person with mental illness in a crisis. The crisis intervention training is taught by the Wilmington Chapter of the National Alliance of Mental Illness.
- A Hawkins County, Tennessee program aimed at fifth-graders seeks to deter children from drugs, as well as help them deal with a family member’s addiction. School resource officers teach the class one day a week for 10 weeks to every fifth-grader in the county school system.