- The Cumberland County, Tennessee Board of Education approved its 2013-’14 budget that included funding for the first year of a School Resource Officer program.
- Missouri Governor Jay Nixon signed into law a bill permitting schools in Missouri to commission local police as school resource officers for safety. The new law requires a memorandum of understanding between participating law enforcement departments and school districts, and allows districts to hire and pay the officers themselves if they choose, rather than sharing the burden of salary with the local governing municipality.
- Delaware editorial disagrees with SRO critics that “intense interrogation” case of a third-grader by the school’s resource officer proves that police officers should not be in the schools.
- The Arizona Department of Education will disperse about $8.4 million for schools safety. Most of the money, about $7.4 million, will pay for the salaries and benefits of 95 school-resource officers for 102 schools.
- Oak Ridge, Tennessee City Council member engages in debate with Oak Ridge Schools superintendent over the safety of schools. The allegation has been made that a culture of terror has saturated the school system.
- The Laramie, Wyoming River Valley Rendezvous, a five-day nonprofit camp that unites at-risk youth with law enforcement, firefighters and military members. The workers spend the week encouraging, mentoring and developing positive relationships that changes some at-risk youth’s perceptions of authority.
- Columbia City, Missouri and Boone County officials met with Columbia Public Schools leaders to discuss the lack of school resource officers in schools.