Missouri lawmaker to introduce bill to have SRO in ‘every public school building’

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Democratic State Home Rep. Mark Sharp stated he plans on introducing a invoice subsequent legislative session that might hopefully make it simpler for college districts to have a college useful resource officer (SRO) in ‘each public college constructing.’

“We would supply 70 % of the funding for college useful resource officers and or any form of college security measures and depart the college district to cowl the remainder of it, which might be the 30%,” Sharp stated Friday.

Sharp wish to see SROs in elementary colleges sooner or later, regardless that they’re typically not in them proper now.

“I don’t as a result of this may not be a mandate,” Sharp stated when requested if this may put college districts in a bind as a result of the state would solely pay 70% of the proposal. “This may simply be a suggestion to these districts who need to choose in to make the most of this program. It’s actually simply to sweeten the deal for our faculty districts to attempt to make it just a little safer for our kiddos.”

Republican State Home Rep. Chris Brown stated the price of this challenge would be the downside.

“What’s the one purpose why they wouldn’t take part in it? It’s a monetary purpose,” Brown stated of faculty districts Friday. “You recognize they only don’t really feel like they will bear that burden going ahead. “If you’re speaking about making an attempt to place a college useful resource officer in actually each college, you’re speaking about elementary, center, and highschool {that a} district could have… Sadly…That’s a monetary hurdle that some college districts simply aren’t going to have the ability to do or would discover it exceedingly troublesome to do.”

Native college districts aren’t commenting on the proposal proper now.