School resource officers will not be stationed in Salem-Keizer Public Schools for the foreseeable future. Superintendent Christy Perry announced Tuesday during the Salem-Keizer School Board meeting that she will not renew SRO contracts with local law enforcement for the remainder of this year or next. The district's most recent contracts expired in June of 2020. With continued community conversations, unclear accountability between the school board and superintendent, and closures from the pandemic, the decision of whether to renew moving forward stayed in limbo for several months. Some questions remain unanswered. "This doesn't mean that we will not have any formal relationship or a contract with law enforcement," Perry clarified. Instead, school safety and discipline will be approached in a new, yet-to-be-determined way, she said, and law enforcement will be brought in for specific cases.