- Students in Jackson County, Alabama return to classes without a School Resource Officer Program. Officials are working hard to bring deputies back to the schools after grant funds dried up and the money ran out.
- The Santa Maria, California Police Department is adding three school resource officers to elementary and high schools in the city. Budget cuts caused those positions to be eliminated in years past, but now the officers are back full-time.
- The Manatee County, Florida school district says safety is a top priority for the community. It has approved nearly $2 million to go toward hiring armed security guards at every elementary school.
- In New Jersey, the Washington Township Board of Education has set student safety as a priority, and now it intends to add two school resource officers to work in the middle and elementary schools. Currently, only the high school has a full-time officer who is the only SRO in the district.
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