Council frustrated as police pursue school resource officer grant

...Resource officers — employed by the police department — are deployed at each of the district’s 25 high schools and some middle schools.

The resource officer portion of the bill was scrapped in February after impassioned testimony from community members who said having more police officers in schools could lead to disproportionate discipline against minority and special education students.

Around the same time, the Montgomery County Police Department, under the guidance of County Executive Marc Elrich, applied for and received a $1.4 million state grant to pay for overtime for school resource officers to provide services to “all MCPS middle schools.”..

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