- Maryland school resource officers discuss serving using the triad approach to school safety.
- The Kentucky Supreme Court rules that students must be given Miranda warnings – that they have right to remain silent and to have a lawyer – if they are interviewed by principals with a school resource officer present.
- Over 100 schools in Hillsborough, Florida to lose police protection when the 2013-2014 school year begins.
- The SRO program in Chico, California is being cancelled after 15 years because of a budget crunch.
- An Alabama State House representative debates school safety policy with the governor after a veto of House Bill 116. Known as the Volunteer Security Force Bill, the proposal sought to improve school security plan for rural areas that do not have funding for school resource officers.