- The Texas Legislature has implemented Senate Bill 393 that prevents school police officers from issuing citations for misbehavior at school, excluding traffic violations. Officers can still submit complaints about students, but it will be up to a local prosecutor whether to charge the student with a Class C misdemeanor.
- Richland County, South Carolina Sheriff’s Department High School Resource Officer Uses Chess to Teach Life Lessons.
- All Randolph County, Alabama schools get school resource officers after a last minute meeting by the Randolph County Board of Education.
- After shooting at an elementary school, the DeKalb County, Georgia Superintendent responds to security concerns due to fact that there is an SRO assigned to each high school and middle school and none at the district’s 77 elementary schools.
- The Steuben County, New York Sheriff’s office has announced the return of the School Resource Officers Program after the program was cut after the 2010-2011 academic year because of a lack of state funding. Six districts in the county have picked up retired officers for $25,000 a year.