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Trustees back exploring shared school resource officers; village may cover summer months cost
Summary
After meetings with three local school districts and sheriff’s deputies, trustees supported exploring a shared school resource officer (SRO) program and asked staff to include a budget request to cover the village’s share of summer months.
Salem Lakes — Trustees gave staff a consensus to include a proposal in the next budget cycles for a shared school resource officer program after Trustee Hopkins briefed the board on meetings with school administrators and Kenosha County sheriff’s representatives.
Hopkins said she met with administrators from Trevor-Wilmot, Riverview and Salem schools and with Captain Klinkhamer and Lieutenant Gilly of the Kenosha County Sheriff’s Department to discuss SRO duties and coverage models by grade band (pre-K to fourth grade; fifth to eighth grade). Two of the three school districts signaled interest; Trevor-Wilmot indicated it…
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