• Despite making commitments for more school resource officers earlier this year, Swain County, North Carolina commissioners pulled the plug on its contribution toward two newly hired resource officers and quit contributing to the salary of the existing two resource officers as well.
• The Lake County, Florida School District is introducing the Volunteers on Patrol Program to give school officials and resource officers more “eyes and ears” to deter, detect and delay threats to campus security. 100 citizens are sought to participate in the observation and reporting program to assist the school-based administrators with daily campus supervision.
• The Delaware Supreme Court has ruled that a school resource officer violated the rights of an 8-year-old student when he detained the youth and intimidated him into crying, all to coax a confession from another student who was the real suspect in the theft of a dollar bill.
• The Pennsylvania Legislature unanimously approved legislation that the Governor signed into law. Senate Bill 10 expands and enhances the safe schools grant program with over $8.5 million for funding of school safety initiatives to address the issue of school violence and improve school safety.
• The Atlanta school board has approved having at least one full-time Atlanta Police Department officer patrolling the halls of every middle school and high school. The 55 officers will be required to go through training on how to work with students.
• The Newport News, Virginia Police Department and the City Boys and Girls Clubs continue a three-year-old program that places its 12 middle and high school resource officers in city Boys and Girls Clubs during the summer. The program is designed to mentor youths and help shift their perceptions on police officers and what they do.
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