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Effectiveness of SRO program called into question
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Tri-Valley youth led a virtual community forum last week to discuss police presence on local school campuses and the future role of school resource officers (SROs).
The evening conversation on July 22 was organized by members of Genesis of the Tri-Valley, a community group focused on impacting structural racism through issue-based campaigns. They aim to end the school-to-prison pipeline, put a stop to youth incarceration completely and find alternate methods for when a student is having a mental health crisis. I don t believe there has ever been an assessment or evaluation of the school resource officer program since it began back in 2002, so there aren t any specifics on Pleasanton s program, Oscar Lopez, interim director of the Education Advocacy Clinic, said during the forum. The data from the Department of Justice I have reviewed has indicated that school resource officers actually do n