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Interesting that an Ohio High School coach stopped a school shooter then pushed for legislation defining what constitutes an SRO. not that more training is a bad thing, but anyone that is trained and determined could do the same thing.. the coach stopped a shooter, and he was unarmed and untrained.

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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.

Ohio hopes to set the standards for SROs at a time when the country is approaching six dozen school shootings so far this year.

~72 school shootings already this year ? Wonder where they got that number..

Bruenor wrote: ~72 school shootings already this year ? Wonder where they got that number..

My guess is that they pulled it out of someplace dark....very dark & smelly.

Leave it to government to make certain they get a pound of flesh and add costs to the simple idea of physical security.

Not only are the common citizens, teachers, staffers, administrators, janitors, etc wholly unqualified to protect the lives of innocent students (see the concept of self-government), now the common LEO is unqualified as well! The insurance companies will only abide by having properly State trained SROs on site. None other will be a covered claim.

Law enforcement budgets grow, school budgets grow. The burden on the taxpayer grows under threat of taking the home.
All of this in a deep red statehouse with a red governor.

Ohio's students become markedly safer?

Two Northwest Ohio schools had levies on the ballot to pay for school safety, both failed big time.

There is a distinction between having a police officer in a school building and having a police officer who serves as a school resource officer. Nothing in this law precludes a police officer from being detailed to a school without SRO training provided that they do not serve as an SRO.

Every officer at my department has 24x7 keycard access to all school facilities and every one is free to come and go throughout the buildings at their discretion. Taking meal breaks at the schools is encouraged, as is taking the MDT out of the cruiser and finishing reports from a school lobby during school hours.

That card also gets free admission to every school event, and officers are encouraged to attend off duty to watch their kids, friends, neighbors, etc. None will become SROs in the eyes of the law, nor do they need to. For the most part it's business as usual.

Since the SRO has essentially become a quasi teaching/administrator position I don't see a problem with saying that those truly serving as SROs need some specialized training to deal with the nuances that come with that.

Javelin Man wrote:Two Northwest Ohio schools had levies on the ballot to pay for school safety, both failed big time.

And that doesn't surprise me. Smart voters there as they know the schools would just misuse the funds. Unless the ballot issue was worded as 100% of the funds must be used to pay for officers or upgrades in XX and YY security measures, they can abuse it.

As an admittedly uninvolved yet interested observer of the school safety controversy it occurs to me that this subject is a classic example of perfect being the enemy of good.

Schools are pretty much defenseless because legislators, administrators and school boards have declared them to be so and no solutions that don't involve large sums of money and bureaucratic meddling shall be considered.