Saturday, April 24, 2021
Third resource officer needed after one goes back on road duty
Monett School Board members recently reviewed policy on school resource officers and school protection officers, slots filled by officers with the Monett Police Department and the district.
School Protection Officers are authorized by the district to carry concealed firearms and self-defense spray on campus, once they have successfully completed a Department of Public Safety approved SPO Training Program.
The district employs SPO Shey Snodgrass as a protection officer at Central Park Elementary and SPO Matt Houck as the School Care Coordinator at Monett Elementary School.
A school resource officer, by federal definition, is a career law enforcement officer with sworn authority who is deployed by an employing police department or agency in a community-oriented policing assignment to work in collaboration with one or more schools. The district employs SROs Jay Jastal at the high school campus a
Thursday, April 8, 2021
Vaccination rate nearly up to 1-in-4 countywide
The number of active COVID-19 (coronavirus) cases in Barry County remained at 12 active since two weeks ago, and only 17 new cases have been reported in that time frame.
According to the Barry County Health Department and Barry County Office of Emergency Management, there have been 3,100 (+17) confirmed positive cases of COVID-19.
As of April 7, a total of 12 (even) people were considered active cases in isolation, and one is hospitalized (even). There are more than 25 close contacts (-5) quarantined in their homes.
No new deaths occurred in the last two weeks. The total number of deaths in the county is 53, and all those who have died were at least 41 years old.
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The number of active COVID-19 (coronavirus) cases in Barry County has dropped to 25, and a total of 3,408 vaccines have been initiated. According to the Barry County Health Department and Barry.
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