Defunding / abolishing school police (consolidated thread)

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    New school police deal under review in South San Francisco

    South San Francisco education and city officials are hammering out terms of an agreement formalizing regulations and expectations for police working as liaison officers on school campuses. Formative discussions on the matter occurred Tuesday, June 8, during a subcommittee meeting between members of the South San Francisco City Council and South San Francisco Unified School District. No decision was made because administrators at each agency are refining specific details with hopes of ultimately crafting an agreement both sides find suitable for adoption. But the effort to adopt a memorandum of understanding marks a more formal approach to the program, which ...


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    Jones College Prep removes its cops as CPS schools begin new round of voting

    A new round of Local School Council voting on whether to remove uniformed police officers from Chicago Public Schools kicked off this week, with Jones College Prep’s representative body opting to remove both its cops next fall. The Loop school’s move away from the School Resource Officer program was approved with nine votes in favor and two abstentions, a year after the Jones LSC voted seven to five to keep its cops. For Jones and the other 54 schools that decided last summer to retain their officers, this year’s votes offer the opportunity to replace the reliance on police with ...


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    Cedar Rapids Schools contemplating future role of school resource officers

    Before the next school year starts in the fall, the Cedar Rapids Community School District said it will have a different answer to the question of to what extent police officers should be present in schools. School resource officers currently work at seven schools in the district — Jefferson High School, Kennedy High School, Metro High School, Washington High School, McKinley Middle School, Roosevelt Middle School, and Polk Alternative Education Center — and are also officers with the Cedar Rapids Police Department. These officers complete additional, specific training geared toward their roles in schools. Data from the Iowa Department of ...


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    Cedar Rapids Schools adjusting School Resource Officer program due to racial disparities

    The Cedar Rapids Community School District is planning to work with the police department to bring changes to the School Resource Officer program. Recent data from the Department of Human Rights shows disparities in complaints made against white and black students. The SRO program was put in place in 2011 before many of the current administrators joined the district. School staff say oversight of the contract has been lacking. "We have to look at our entire student population and do what’s best for each and every student that we serve," CRCSD Deputy Superintendent Nicole Kooiker said. Since 2015 African American ...


    Statement from Cedar Rapids Police Department:

    The Cedar Rapids Police Department has been working with the Cedar Rapids Community School district since 2010 to provide School Resource Officers.

    Our officers have worked with students, parents, guardians, educators, school principals, and school administrators to build trust and relationships.

    As the result of these relationships, there have been a number of violent crimes prevented and, more importantly, assistance has been provided to students who needed it through appropriate resource referrals.

    The primary mission of School Resource Officers is to build positive relationships, not arrest students.

    Many referrals by School Resource Officers to Juvenile Court Services are the result of a victim wanting charges submitted, after the School Resource Officer has consulted with school staff and they make a collective decision.

    Of the students arrested, over 75 percent are arrested only once during their entire time within the school district, which dispels the myth propagated that officers in schools are a “pipeline to prison.”

    We look forward to presenting factual information to the Cedar Rapids Community Schools Board of Education and firmly believe the Board, parents, guardians, educators, principals, and students will agree School Resource Officers are an important way to keep our schools safe and support a positive learning environment.

    We are committed to working with the Cedar Rapids Community Schools to continually improve this important program.

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    Judge dismisses lawsuit against city and police

    A judge has ruled the city of Key West and its police department did not violate the civil rights of a 8-year-old Gerald Adams Elementary School student, who was arrested and nearly handcuffed after he struck a teacher at school three years ago. Judge K. Michael Moore ruled in favor of the city’s and the police department’s request for summary judgement in the case, according to the judge’s ruling issued Monday. The mother of the then 8-year-old boy, Bianca DiGennaro, filed a lawsuit against the city of Key West, the police department, officers Michael Malgrat, Kenneth Waite and Carter Sims ...


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    Fresno schools will keep police on campus after debate - but some things are changing

    A nearly yearlong community debate over police in the city’s public schools ended Wednesday when the Fresno Unified school board voted to keep armed police officers on campus over the objections of community groups that pushed the district to end its relationship with law enforcement. Before Wednesday’s vote, Fresno Police Chief Paco Balderrama said the department’s new deal with the schools would include more robust data reporting the outcomes of student interactions with campus police officers. “It would be a lot easier for me as police chief to not enter into these contracts with you. That would be the easier ...


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    Fresno schools will keep police on campus after debate - but some things are changing

    This story is part of The Pipeline, a series of stories written by The Fresno Bee's Education Lab that explore mental health, students and their experience with law enforcement on campus. A nearly yearlong community debate over police in the city's public schools ended Wednesday when the Fresno Unified school board voted to keep armed police officers on campus over the objections of community groups that pushed the district to end its relationship with law enforcement. Before Wednesday's vote, Fresno Police Chief Paco Balderrama said the department's new deal with the schools would include more robust data reporting the outcomes ...


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    Why Are There Cops in Schools?

    A recent survey by the Center for Popular Democracy found that more than two-thirds of public school students thought that police should be removed from schools. One in five students reported being verbally harassed or made fun of by police in school, and two of every five young people surveyed felt unsafe just seeing them. The findings were released in a report titled “Arrested Learning: A Survey of Youth Experiences of Police and Security at School.” The report details how students often feel targeted by police in schools, including through regular, negative interactions as well as sexual harassment. The students ...


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    Rallying outside meeting, students, community members urge LAUSD board to defund school police

    As budget talks were taking place inside, more than 100 people gathered outside the Los Angeles Unified School District headquarters in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday, June 22, to urge the school board to defund the Los Angeles Schools Police Department and reallocate those funds to academic and social services for students. After protesters used their vehicles to block traffic, chants such as “Hey LAUSD, Defund School Police” and “Whose Streets? Our Streets” began. Demonstrators carried signs bearing such slogans as “Education, Not Incarceration” and “Invest in Students’ Future.” Inside the meeting, board member Tanya Ortiz Franklin urged her colleagues ...


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    Students and Teachers Fight to Kick Cops Out of Schools in California's Antelope Valley

    Corey Dozier felt like he had a target on his back during his years at Antelope Valley High School in California. "Being a young Black man on campus, I felt targeted" by school resource officers (SROs) on campus, the 18-year-old told Newsweek. "It feels like you're not protected and they're there to protect." His 17-year-old brother Koby, a senior at the school, added: "No kids want to go to school and feel unsafe because of the police officer." The brothers spoke in support of a campaign—Cancel the Contract Antelope Valley—by a coalition of community groups who are calling on the ...


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    End of SROs in Schools in Arlington

    School Resource Officers are a divisive element in discussions around making schools a safer and more inclusive environment for students of color. “SROs are essentially unnecessary considering their impact on the Yorktown community,” says Yasmina Mansour, a junior at Yorktown High School. SROs are defined by the U.S. Department of Justice as “sworn law enforcement officers responsible for safety and crime prevention in schools.” The program began officially in Virginia Public Schools in the mid-1980s, although SROs were in some Arlington schools as early as 1969. Supporters of SROs argue that they are important to keep students and staff safe ...


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    74 Interview: CT. Sen. Chris Murphy on Banning Federal Funds for Campus Cops

    Over the last several decades, the number of police stationed inside public schools has exploded, often with much fanfare in the wake of a mass school shooting. But that could soon change. After a Minneapolis cop murdered George Floyd last year, dozens of districts nationwide did what student activists have been demanding for years and broke up with the police. Now, Democratic lawmakers aim to eliminate a mechanism that’s long encouraged educators to place police officers inside their buildings: A big pot of federal cash. The Counseling Not Criminalization in Schools Act, reintroduced in June, would prohibit the government from ...


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    School safety without police: social workers, private security considered as Chicago councils vote to remove officers

    At Hyde Park Academy on the South Side, the school’s governing council voted to keep one campus police officer and replace another with a dean in charge of culture and climate. At Kennedy High School on the Southwest Side, the council will replace two student resource officers with a student support specialist and private security. In high schools across the city, local school councils — once again tasked with the decision to keep or remove school police — have been grappling with the best way to keep students safe. The groups were first handed the authority last summer to decide ...


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    POINT/COUNTERPOINT: Should Colorado schools use resource officers?


    Point: Rep. Mary Bradfield

    Last year, Denver Public Schools joined a state and nationwide debate when they removed all of their school resource officers. The DPS decision came amid and largely because of a tidal wave of fury at police officers in the wake of George Floyd’s death last June. Making such consequential decisions due to prevailing political winds is unwise, and other Colorado school districts would be unwise to follow suit. SROs aren’t just police officers; they are specially trained to interact in school settings. The Department of Justice defines an SRO as a law enforcement officer “in a community-oriented policing assignment to ...


    Counterpoint: Chauncy Johnson

    The past school year came with the obvious challenges and concerns that COVID brought. What is best for children socially and emotionally was weighed against the challenge of ensuring that schools are safe. The events of the summer of 2020 have caused many to ask if we need police in our schools, another problem in trying to find a healthy balance between kids getting what they need to thrive and keeping them safe. Now is the time to boldly act by removing school resource officers from our public schools. I was born and raised in the Colorado Springs and attended ...


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    Police surveillance is the wrong approach to student safety

    It is an unfortunate reality that, in America, schools have to keep asking: How do we protect our students from a mass shooting? Absent any meaningful gun reform legislation from Congress, school administrators have turned to other tactics to promote safety. And while some of those measures seem reasonable, like active shooter drills or heightened security, they can have unintended and potentially dangerous consequences. Active shooter drills, for example, might lead to higher levels of depression and stress among students, and stricter security at schools often comes at the cost of encroaching on student privacy. (Some schools have been far ...


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    Yet another reason to keep the pigs out of schools:


    Hell's Kitchen Cops Maced, Arrested Teen Bystander, Suit Alleges

    A Black teenager and his mother are suing the NYPD and several police officers, alleging that they unlawfully stopped him, sprayed him with mace, and arrested him for being a bystander to a fight in Hell's Kitchen two years ago. The teenager — identified only by his initials, W.B. — lives in the Bronx along with his mother, Stephanie Ceteno, who is also listed as a plaintiff. Their lawsuit, filed earlier this month in a Manhattan state court, centers around a Sept. 12, 2019 incident that happened near the corner of West 53rd Street and Eighth Avenue. Around 2:30 p.m. ...


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    Study Confirms School-to-Prison Pipeline

    Children who attend schools with high suspension rates are significantly more likely to be arrested and jailed as adults – especially Black and Hispanic boys – according to new research that shines a spotlight on the school-to-prison pipeline. Data have long shown that Black and Hispanic students experience suspension and expulsion at much higher rates than white students, and that as adults, they're also disproportionately represented in the county's prison system. And while research shows a correlation between high levels of education and low levels of criminal activity, there exists little evidence on the role that individual schools can play ...


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    Pinellas school district inks law enforcement agreement amid community concerns

    After months of review, the Pinellas County School Board on Tuesday approved a new working agreement with 13 law enforcement agencies that operate inside the schools. Originally set for adoption in February, the document came under fire from community groups, including the local NAACP chapter, for being devised without community input. Some civic leaders contended the proposal would lead to overpolicing of students in a district where Black children have been arrested at disproportionate rates. James Michael Shaw Jr., an attorney working with some of the people with concerns, asked the board to consider postponing its planned vote. He contended ...


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    Lawmaker honors girl arrested at Orlando charter school after passage of law named after her

    Kaia Rolle, the girl whose 2019 arrest at an Orlando charter school attracted national outrage and helped lead to the creation of a minimum age for arrest in Florida, was honored Wednesday with a framed commemoration of the new law passed in her name. The remembrance, gifted to Kaia and her grandmother Meralyn Kirkland by Sen. Randolph Bracy (D-Ocoee) at a press conference, marked the culmination of a yearslong effort to pass the Kaia Rolle Act, which prohibits most arrests of kids younger than 7. The bill, signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis earlier this year, was part of a broader ...


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