• Kearney, Kentucky Public Schools profile the success of the triad approach in the performance of a local school resource officer.
• Two school districts in the State of Iowa – the Bondurant-Farrar School District and the Clinton School District – testify in favor of the SRO. School resource officers have had positive effects in their schools.
• The Brooks County, Georgia school board votes to eliminate the School Resource Officer Program. One parent vows to stand outside to guard her children’s schools herself if there are no SRO officers next school year.
• Montgomery County, Maryland officials vote to add six additional school resource officers to the public schools.
• The Wallenpaupack, Pennsylvania School Board votes to add $283,956.00 to the budget to hire four (4) additional school resource officers. The Superintendent says that the triad approach is what will make the addition of the SROs valuable to the school climate.
• The Sioux Falls, South Dakota Police Department is changing its School Resource Officer program to include more of a team approach. Instead of assigning an SRO to a specific school, the SRO’s will instead this fall be assigned to a quadrant so they can take a team approach to the public and private schools in their area.