- A staffing shortage of 18 officers at the Fargo, North Dakota Police Department means school resource officers are going to be pulled out of schools and placed back into squad cars. The Police Department and Fargo Public Schools are collaborating on the issue to find a feasible solution.
- In California, the school board for the Compton Unified School District has implemented a policy that allows campus police who pass an internal selection process to buy AR-15 rifles and carry them in their patrol car trunks while on duty.
- The City of Meriden, Connecticut will eliminate its long-running Drug Abuse Resistance Education program for fifth-graders and replace it with a police officer for elementary schools.
- The City of Norman, Oklahoma and Norman Public Schools are implementing a school resource officer program. There will be 13 officers. Two will be at each high school, one will be at each middle school and five will rotate between elementary schools.