Darryl Heller, director of the IU South Bend Civil Rights Heritage Center, left, speaks next to Regina Williams-Preston, of Black Lives Matter South Bend, and Paul Mishler, of the Michiana Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, during a press conference Wednesday about resource officers in schools.
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Logan Countyâs high school and five feeder schools in Adairville, Auburn, Chandlers, Lewisburg, and Olmstead will continue sharing three school resource officers (SRO) in the 2021-2022 fiscal year.
The Logan County School District serves approximately 3500 students in the system which calculates to 1166 students per officer to protect, not counting administrators, educators, and support staff.
The countyâs fiscal court approved a contract with the Logan County School System Tuesday to provide three trained and certified deputies who are to work at all times when school is in session, as well as during teacher training days. The district agrees to reimburse the county 60% of the officerâs wages and benefits totaling up to 195 days per year. When school is not in session, the deputies will be working the road.
Jim Kenyon: Police reform can start in our schools
Modified: 4/24/2021 9:48:48 PM
The call for police reform has captured a lot of attention and hearts in the Upper Valley during the last year.
But sooner or later, the Upper Valley’s reform movement needs a win a substantive policy change that signals progress. (Several communities have passed so-called “welcoming ordinances” designed to protect undocumented immigrants, but they seem more symbolic than anything.)
That’s why so much is riding on what the Lebanon School Board decides in the coming weeks about its school resource officer position.
For 20 years, Lebanon school officials have bought into the fairy tale that deploying an armed cop to patrol the hallways of the city’s high school and middle school should be standard operating procedure.
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