Pacific Grove Unified and City Police Outline Safety Plan After SRO Contract Not Renewed

Pacific Grove Unified School District trustees on Thursday discussed how the district and the Pacific Grove Police Department will cover campus safety after the board decided not to renew the district's dedicated school resource officer contract.

Superintendent Dr. Adamson told the board she has asked site administrators for immediate needs and identified Chief Casey Day as the city's point person for school contacts, patrols and coordination. "He will be the individual with whom we will plan," Adamson said, adding that PGPD agreed to include school campuses in regular patrols and to be available for trainings, assemblies and sporting events.

Chief Casey Day, who took the chief's post in March, told trustees he favors a community-oriented policing model and repeated the department's commitment to remain engaged with schools. "Our police department operates off of a community oriented policing…