Officers can be hired to provide security for school-related events such as sports events, school dances and graduations. Officers will not be used to supervise students during the school day.
San Jose’s largest school district voted Thursday night to keep its agreement with San Jose police and allow officers on campus for afterschool activities. It comes after heated debate.
Op-ed: We must remove officers who have killed or wounded from schools
San Jose Unified School District offices are pictured in this file photo.
San Jose has appointed a new head of the police department, Chief Anthony Mata, at a time our city and communities are having a long needed reimagining of what public safety means.
This dialogue is about the safety and wellbeing of Black and brown communities who throughout our history have endured the injustice of systemic racism. It is about the criminalization of poverty in one of the costliest places to live in the nation. And it is about finding non-police solutions to societal problems that can’t be answered with guns and incarceration.