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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Bill that would allow armed guards in public schools advances
The Kentucky House Education Committee has voted to allow armed guards to fill in for school resource officers in public schools despite legislative opposition to last-minute changes to the proposal.
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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 […]