- Epping, New Hampshire voters overrule local leaders and vote to reinstate the school resource officer. Its three schools have been without a resource officer for about 10 years.
- The Delores County Colorado school board voted to have its high school principal and district superintendent double as security officers authorized to carry firearms with a pay raise of $1 apiece.
- In a recent poll, 55% of North Carolinians say public schools are less safe than they were 10 years ago, and most people would prefer to have armed guards in the schools.
- “We love having police in schools.” One South Carolina administrator makes it clear she favors presence of school resource officers.