The City of Fort Mitchell is sponsoring a full-time School Resource Officer at Blessed Sacrament School. City council and mayor have said before that while Blessed Sacrament School is private, they feel responsible for student safety. At their Oct.13 meeting, the city council decided that employing an SRO is part of that responsibility. Blessed Sacrament […]
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St. Agnes School asks Fort Wright to consider sponsoring an SRO
The Diocese of Covington approached Fort Wright to request that the city sponsor a school resource officer. Fort Wright is considering a contract with the stipulation that St. Agnes would bear the entire operating cost. The Diocese of Covington has approached other local cities about sponsoring a school resource officer, often called an SRO. Blessed […]
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Fort Mitchell mulls using city money for officer at private school
The City of Fort Mitchell is considering shouldering part of the cost of a school resource officer at Blessed Sacrament. Ted Edgington, director of safety for the Diocese of Covington and current full-time school resource officer at Covington Catholic High School, addressed the council on this topic at their meeting on Monday. He explained that […]
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Kenton County mayors continue discussions on housing and police recruiting
The Kenton County Mayors Group met and discussed affordable housing and police recruiting at their meeting on Saturday. A state legislature interim committee is looking into the former, and the latter is being affected by new police training requirements and competition for contract positions.
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Kenton County officials discuss models, alternatives to retaining school resource officers
The Kenton County Mayors Group discussed the challenges of recruiting and retaining school resource officers in the county, with different municipalities using different models for providing and funding SROs. Alternatives were also discussed.
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Northern Kentucky schools struggle to hire mandated school resource officers
Written by WCPO’s Taylor Nimmo Kentucky schools are required to have their own armed school resource officers after Gov. Andy Beshear signed the School Safety and Resiliency Act into law last year, but some districts are finding that filling those mandated positions has been extremely difficult. According to a report from the state school security […]
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Bellevue seeks new resource officer for middle, high schools
The Bellevue Police Department is seeking a new school resource officer for Bellevue Middle and High School. School resource officers are responsible for monitoring and managing criminal activity in schools, and Kentucky law mandates the presence of one in all public schools. The position includes a $70,000 salary, paid vacation and vision and dental insurance. […]
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Boone County honors SROs, bus drivers, therapy dog honored
The 29 School Resource Officers assigned to Boone County Schools were honored at the May 11 Board of Education meeting. The Sheriff Deputies led by Major Ryan Walters work in the 28 buildings of the school system providing security for the nearly 25,000 students and staff in the system. Deputy Alesa Collinsworth, the newest […]
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Local education leaders talk to lawmakers in discussion of police in schools, students’ mental healthÂ
As the deadline nears for Kentucky school districts to ensure that a police officer is present on all campuses, the General Assembly’s Interim Committee on Education met Thursday to further discuss its School Safety and Resiliency Act, as well as mental health in schools in Kentucky. “In light of the tragedy that we saw in […]