- Even though a sought-after federal grant fell through, the City of Minot, North Dakota and Minot Public Schools will form a partnership to provide resource officers in the schools. Minot is the only major North Dakota that does not have officers in the schools.
- A school resource officer working for Evergreen, New York Public Schools imposed a lockdown and arrested a parent, after she forced her way into the principal’s office and began making threats.
- After a two-year hiatus, Paramus, New Jersey Police officials have reinstated its DARE and School Resource Officer programs.
- The Lake Pend Oreille, Idaho school district is no longer considering an idea to make guns available to teachers and other staff members after district administrators overwhelmingly opposed the idea and the board of trustees divided on the proposal.
- The first round of the Indiana’s school safety grants under SB1 have been awarded. Of the more than 200 schools, about half the schools opted to use the to hire school resource officers trained in both security and student counseling. Others used the grants for equipment upgrades.