5142.4 - Student Safety - School Resource Officer
5142.4
Students
Safety
School Resource Officer
In order to make schools more orderly, safer and secure, the district may employ police officers to deliver security services as school resource officers (SROs).
The utilization of school resource officers in district schools is to accomplish the following goals.
Provide a safe learning environment and help reduce school violence.
Improve school/law enforcement collaboration.
Improve perceptions and relations among students, staff and law enforcement officials.
Collaborate with designated members of the school and District staff and with local law enforcement, fire service, public safety and emergency management agencies, and parents/guardians in the development of school safety/crisis plans.
Additionally, School Resource Officers may be involved in
Investigating and documenting specific incidents;
Assisting in identifying, intervening and communicating with at-risk students;
Providing crime prevention education;
Promotion a positive student attitude towards law enforcement;
Operating as a liaison between the community and the District.
The Superintendent of Schools will develop administrative regulations as necessary to implement this policy.
The Board shall enter into a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the local police department that defines the officer's role and responsibilities. The MOA must address daily interactions among students, school personnel, and police officers, and must include a graduated response model for student discipline.
Legal Reference: Connecticut General Statutes
4-176e through 4-180a. Contested Cases. Notice. Record.
10-220 Duties of boards of education.
10-233a through 10-233f. Suspension, removal and expulsion of students, as amended by PA 95-304, PA 96-244, and PA 98-139.
53a-217b Possession of Firearms and Deadly Weapons on School Grounds.
PA 15-168 An Act Concerning Collaboration Between Boards of Education and School Resource
Officers and the Collection and Reporting of Data on School-Based Arrests
PA 94-221 An Act Concerning School Discipline and Safety.
GOALS 2000: Educate America Act, Pub. L. 103-227.
18 U.S.C. 921 Definitions.
Title III - Amendments to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
Sec. 314 (Local Control Over Violence)
Elementary and Secondary Act of 1965 as amended by the Gun Free Schools Act of 1994.
P.L. 105-17 The Individuals with Disabilities Act, Amendment of 1997.
Kyle P. Packer PPA Jane Packer v. Thomaston Board of Education.
Policy adopted: April 26, 2018 WINDSOR LOCKS PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Windsor Locks, Connecticut