- The Indiana towns of St. John, Schererville and Dyer have all agreed to share the costs of providing a school resource officer for their schools.
- Atlanta Police and Atlanta Public Schools launched a year-round partnership with the new school year. It puts officers in high school and middle schools five days a week.
- Oak Ridge, Tennessee city officials and educators reach agreement on school resource officer MOU.
- School resource officers from the Cary, N.C., Police Department spent the summer conducting “Camp Confidence,” a summer camp with the goal of building relationships with 20 to 30 young men who are getting ready to enter high school.
- In Connecticut, the School Safety Infrastructure Council reports its findings on how to design safe schools without creating a prison-like atmosphere and statewide safety standards for individual school districts.
- The Argyle, Texas School Board unanimously decided to establish its own establish school district police department instead of entering into an agreement with the Denton County Sheriff’s Office or the Argyle Police Department to hire a school resource officer.