A new proposal from Attorney General Greg Zoeller and a GOP state senator would help Indiana schools put more police officers in their buildings. School resource officers are already present in somewhere between a quarter and a third of Hoosier schools. Senator Pete Miller (R-Avon) is proposing legislation that would provide a grant to school corporations – up to a $50,000 funding match – to add resource officers to their schools. The bill would also require that all school resource officers have law enforcement certification and training to work in a school environment. He calls the proposal a first step in addressing violence like the Newtown school shooting: “No one is suggesting that this is the end-all, be-all to school security, that there will be others in the legislature, there will be…the governor-elect, I’m sure, would like to weigh in.” Attorney General Greg Zoeller says while the Newtown, Connecticut, shooting spotlights school safety, resource officers play a larger role.
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