Peachtree City announced a partnership with the Fayette County Board of Education intended to place a school resource officer in each of the city’s six elementary schools, a city official said.

"What we're doing is finding a way to make sure that we can put a school resource officer in every 1 of our elementary schools," the city official said, noting that historically one officer had covered multiple schools. The official said several new police officers are in the police academy and that "it takes 4 to 6 months to get a new police officer through academy, and then we can backfill some of our existing positions as we move police officers into the role of school resource officers at all of our elementary schools." The goal stated in the meeting record is to have resource officers in every elementary school no later than the end of this calendar year.

The transcript records this as a partnership and planned staffing change; it does not include a formal vote, implementation timetable with specific dates, or funding amounts for the SRO placements. The council speaker contrasted the new approach with a prior arrangement in which a single officer (Officer Smiley, named in the remarks) rotated among the city’s elementary schools over many years.

City and school officials will need to complete hiring, academy training, and internal staffing adjustments before SROs are in place, according to the timeline described in the remarks.