• The Phoenix, Arizona mayor introduces a school safety program that would add additional SROs at a cost of less than 50 percent of the traditional school resource officer, and would maintain the same duties.
• The Snohomish County, Washington Sheriff’s Office has launched a new School Service Unit that will serve over 100 public and private schools spread out over almost 2,000 square miles in unincorporated Snohomish County.
• By a 68-23 vote, the Oklahoma House of Representatives approve legislation that will allow armed teachers in schools.
• Voters in Monadnock, New Hampshire reinstate SRO position at the Monadnock Regional Middle/High School. The position was cut from the school district budget last year after an SRO worked at the school for 11 years.