Standards of Quality; full-time uniformed school resource officer. (HB1730)
Introduced By
Del. Mark Cole (R-Fredericksburg)
Progress
✓ |
Introduced |
✗ |
Passed Committee |
☐ |
Passed House |
☐ |
Passed Senate |
☐ |
Signed by Governor |
☐ |
Became Law |
Description
Standards of Quality; full-time uniformed school resource officer. Requires each local school board to establish a collaborative agreement with local law-enforcement agencies to employ one full-time uniformed school resource officer in every school in the local school division. Read the Bill »
Outcome
Bill Has Failed
History
Date | Action |
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01/08/2013 | Committee |
01/08/2013 | Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/13 13103100D |
01/08/2013 | Referred to Committee on Education |
01/11/2013 | Assigned Education sub: Standards Of Quality |
01/14/2013 | Impact statement from DPB (HB1730) |
01/21/2013 | Impact statement from DHCD (HB1730) |
01/29/2013 | Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (6-Y 3-N) |
01/29/2013 | Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations |
01/30/2013 | Reported from Education (19-Y 2-N) (see vote tally) |
01/30/2013 | Referred to Committee on Appropriations |
01/31/2013 | Assigned App. sub: Public Safety |
01/31/2013 | Subcommittee recommends laying on the table |
02/05/2013 | Left in Appropriations |
Comments
The ACLU of Virginia is monitoring this bill, which requires each local school board to establish a collaborative agreement with local law-enforcement agencies to employ one full-time uniformed school resource officer in every school in the local school division. The over-policing of schools is a serious problem in America. Many school police deal with relatively minor misbehaviors, like drawing on desks, outbursts in the classroom, or minor fights. These are school discipline matters, not police matters. Scaling up police presence in schools can have unintended consequences and can damage learning environments. We should not respond to the critical but complicated question of how to protect students by rushing to put police in schools without understanding the serious negative consequences they can have. Further, the impact of over-policing is especially harsh on youth of color. If police are stationed in schools, they must be responsible only for serious criminal law matters, not for matters that may be minor violations best handled by schools as discipline issues. School-based police must be adequately trained to work with youth, and there must be transparency in and accountability for their activities. Law enforcement intervention (including arrest, citation, summons, etc.) ought to be a last resort.
To the ACLU-VA Students' Rights. Last time I checked, a minor fight was still considered assault & battery by definition of the Code of Virginia. Also law enforcement is placed in school not only for criminal matters but as an added resource for school staff and students. Leave it to you all to turn something upside down and make this about race and over-policing.