- The percentage of American parents who fear for their child’s physical safety in school is at 27% according to a new Gallup Poll on school safety.
- In Hillsborough County, Florida, the school district has implemented a new school security plan. Under the plan, school officials are placing 20 new community service officers in the elementary schools. The officers work for the district and oversee four to six schools each. The officers do not have arrest powers like school resource officers.
- The commitment to providing school safety is at issue in Sarasota County, Florida. The school board is debating how to increase school safety after canceling its school resource officer program for budget reasons.
- The Cattaraugus, New York Village Board voted at its last meeting to abolish its police department, with the intention of dedicating those funds to providing a student resource officer (SRO) in Cattaraugus-Little Valley Central School.