Butler County, Ohio Sheriff declares that he “won’t support a school levy again that doesn’t address school safety with armed personnel.”
Several Shelby County, Tennessee school commissioners are not in favor of the new state law that allows local school boards to choose whether to let certain qualified faculty and staff carry weapons.
Bethlehem and Bethlehem Township, Pennsylvania City and district officials hope to bring back five school resource officers who were eliminated from the school budget by applying for a U.S. Department of Justice COPS grant. The grant would cover 75 percent of the cost of all five officers.
Lancaster County, Nebraska officials vote unanimously to extend a contract between the Sheriff’s Office and the public school districts for continuing the school resource officer program.