Richland, South Carolina school officials believe that school resource officers need to be in all the schools, but they say that they may not have the funding to hire the officers by the start of the school year because requests to Richland County Council for partial funding have been met with uncertainty.
Officials in Lexington, South Carolina are looking at bringing school resource officers on board in the coming year for each of its 12 elementary schools and opening at least two substations for deputies on or near the facilities.