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HB 318, sponsored by State Representative Sarah Latourette, says an SRO is a police officer who undergoes an additional 40 hours of specialized training. SROs provide services to schools that include the development of strategies to resolve problems impacting teens and implementation and changes to a school's comprehensive emergency management plan.
Up until now, schools could call just about anyone a school resource officer. That's no longer the case with legislation signed by Governor John Kasich.
The Coach Hall Foundation was instrumental in convincing lawmakers to establish credentials for SROs and to provide grant money to help train officers.
"We just don't want to put anyone in our schools," said Hall.
Channel 3 News surveyed 30 school districts across northeast Ohio and found 22 of the 30 do not employ an SRO, as defined by Ohio Law
Fourteen of the 22 said they do have at least one police officer inside the building to provide security. The remaining eight said they do not employ a police officer or an SRO.
~72 school shootings already this year ? Wonder where they got that number..Ohio hopes to set the standards for SROs at a time when the country is approaching six dozen school shootings so far this year.