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Mar. 3—Longmont City Council members voted unanimously Tuesday night to approve an intergovernmental agreement with the St. Vrain Valley School District for assigning police School Resource Officers to high schools and middle schools in Longmont during the 2020-21 school year. Under the written agreement, the school district will pay the city a total of $928,676 as its portion of the costs of ...
The ones who teach the officers and deputies on the proper techniques and give me a report that he followed the proper techniques that he's been taught here at the department. >> sheriff, for folks, you talk broadly about the specific incident, about the sro program, how long it's been in place, how many officers are in how many schools, et cetera? >> we have 87 school resource officers. we're the largest in the state. every school in richland county, elementary school, middle school, high school, alternative schools, have a school resource officer assigned to them. some of the high schools ha...
Learn from a book about a math, life skills, something dangerous, gangs and drugs. some are teachers, some are coaches. this officer was a football coach for spring valley high school also. we want them to be involved in the school, be a positive school model. they're there to assist administrators and teach to make sure it's a good, safe learning environment. that's what kids go to school for is to learn. >> concerns raised by many in the community about the sro program, whether that officer should have been in that room to begin with. is that something that going forward you will look into a...
And they're the ones who teach on the proper techniques and they'll give me the report on whether he followed the proper techniques he's been taught at the sheriff's department. >> for out of town folks, can you talk broadly about the sro program, how long it's been in place, how many officers are in how many schools, et cetera. >> we have 87 school resource officers, the largest in the state. every school in richland county have a school resource officer assigned to them. some of the high schools have two school resource officers. i've been sheriff for 19 years, and we've had these officers i...
That can be handled so simply and it escalated needlessly. >> it didn't even appear this officer talked with the student, although again, we don't know all that went on in that classroom before the other student started to take out their video cameras or phone cameras. >> absolutely. that's why training, you know, we train hundreds of thousands of officers across the country that work in schools. it's such a positive program. it's probably one of the more successful programs, the sro program, in the country. so, it's disturbing to see incidents like this occur. and it's something that can be h...