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Austin ISD police losing 15 officer positions amid staff cuts
The college district stated the positions being minimize are presently vacant.
AUSTIN, Texas — Fifteen Austin ISD Police Division officer positions will likely be minimize by the college district as a part of districtwide employees reductions.
AISD stated the positions minimize are already vacant and the variety of college useful resource officers (SRO) is not going to be impacted by the reductions. The district stated it is going to have 76 sworn officers within the district police division for the 2022-23 college 12 months.
The variety of officers for the upcoming college 12 months will permit positions at the highschool and center college campuses to be totally staffed and supply daytime patrol coverages. The college district added that night time patrol officers will likely be assigned to a campus or daytime patrol.
“Our academics are educated in social-emotional studying, and our doorways robotically lock. We do no matter it takes day by day to maintain our youngsters secure,” AISD stated in a press release to KVUE concerning the cuts.
Austin ISD police chief leaving after 4 years
KVUE first requested concerning the AISD Police Division employees reductions final Wednesday throughout an interview with the Appearing Chief Beverly Freshour.
The day after the Uvalde college shootings, we needed to know what Central Texas college districts had been doing to guard college students, academics and employees within the aftermath of the shootings. It was throughout that interview that the AISD media supervisor prevented Chief Freshour from answering our questions.
Here is a have a look at that interview in its entirety:
The 15 officer positions minimize by the district quantity to $1.4 million, the district reported.
In line with the police division web site, AISD police employs 89 full-time officers, together with 43 SROs, 20 patrol officers and two psychological well being coordinators. Two SROs are assigned to each highschool campus and one at each center college campus. The division additionally employs 39 civilian employees.
The college board beforehand mentioned the funds deficit the district faces and stated a number of hundred positions will likely be minimize to make up for the deficit. The positions minimize embody central workplace and campus positions across the district. You may see the entire positions being minimize right here.
Austin educators eager for change after Uvalde capturing
Information of the proposed cuts, that are set to be finalized later this month, comes every week after the mass college capturing in Uvalde. Within the tragic capturing, 19 college students and two academics had been killed when a gunman opened fireplace in a classroom at Robb Elementary College. It’s the deadliest college capturing in Texas historical past and the deadliest within the nation in almost a decade.
Officers have stated responding officers, as many as 19, waited outdoors of the classroom the gunman was in for almost an hour. That occurred as youngsters contained in the classroom known as 911 for assist.
The Texas Rangers and FBI at the moment are investigating the incident and regulation enforcement’s response.
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