school resource officers

School resource officers have been a point of contention in districts across the country and in Alexandria, Virginia. The Alexandria City School Board is considering extending the SRO program. News4’s Drew Wilder spoke with people both for and against the officer program.

The Alexandria School Board is set to formally ask the city to extend funding for school resource officers (SROs) for another year.

The Alexandria School Board is set to formally ask the city to extend funding for school resource officers for another year. News4’s Justin Finch reports.

The shooting at a Magruder High School in Montgomery County, Maryland, comes months after the county school system got rid of school resource officers, renewing the debate about whether those officers should be inside public schools. News4’s Aimee Cho reports.

The school board and police department’s preliminary plan is to put five officers in four schools.

Some D.C. Council members are calling for more transparency and oversight when students encounter law enforcement in schools. Almost 75% percent of D.C. students are Black, yet they make up 91% of school-based arrests, according to a 2017 report by the U.S. Department of Education. Students of color are more likely to go to a school with a law enforcement...

Almost 75 percent of D.C. students are Black, yet they make up 91 percent of school-based arrests. That troubling statistic is fueling a call for transparency and oversight when students encounter law enforcement in schools. News4’s Cory Smith outlines some of the ideas being floated by council members.

Alexandria city pulled school resource officers from schools last spring, but, after public pressure, is bringing them back. News4’s Drew Wilder spoke with a woman whose brother was beaten up at school. She says she believes school violence has increased without officers there to watch over students.

The Alexandria City Council voted Wednesday to temporarily put school resource officers back into middle and high schools, after hours of heated debate that frustrated the city’s mayor. The council voted 4-3 to put the uniformed police officers back into schools through the end of the school year.  A decision last spring removed SROs from schools this school year....

Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reports on new calls for school resource officers to be returned to Alexandria schools.

Some Alexandria parents and council members are renewing a push to restore the school resource officer program in Alexandria city schools after a student was arrested with a gun.

A review by the News4 I-Team revealed some communities have fully withdrawn police officers from their local schools for the 2021-22 school year, while others have increased their forces and pledged to further bolster their school resource officer programs.

As schools reopen last year’s graduates aren’t the only ones who’ve departed. A review by the News4 I-Team found some communities eliminated school police officers, while neighboring school districts are seeking to hire more of them. Scott MacFarlane reports.