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San Fernando council sends edited letter to LAUSD superintendent seeking stronger campus safety partnerships
Summary
The City Council approved a letter to the Los Angeles Unified School District superintendent supporting stronger partnerships between schools and law-enforcement and requesting LAUSD-owned data and clearer lines of coordination; the council deleted a passage linking recent incident increases directly to earlier changes in LAUSD policing policy.
The San Fernando City Council voted to send an edited advocacy letter to the Los Angeles Unified School District superintendent asking for improved school–law enforcement coordination, clearer data on campus incidents and assistance responding to safety concerns raised by local parents.
Councilmembers discussed recent parent complaints and cited differing accounts about whether LAUSD police were restricted from campus access after budget changes. Councilmember Victoria Garcia told the council she had heard from parents who say the district’s policing changes reduced on-campus presence and said, "I'm here to ask for help for my community." The council debated whether to attribute rises in weapons and physical incidents to a single policy shift; as part of edits approved by the council, members removed a paragraph that directly linked incident counts to the reduction in armed school officers and instead asked for a collaborative approach and access to incident data.
Action taken: Councilmember Joel Fajardo moved, and the council approved, an edited letter directed to LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho (and cc’ing all LAUSD board members) that: asks LAUSD to share incident-level data and plans to improve campus safety; expresses support for school police having access to campuses for public-safety reasons; deletes a paragraph that attributed recent incident increases explicitly to reductions in armed school officers; and requests that the superintendent coordinate with San Fernando on school-safety resources and funding. The council approved minor wording edits and agreed to carbon-copy all LAUSD board members.
Why it matters: The letter formalizes the council’s request for better information-sharing and local collaboration between the city, LAUSD and school police. Councilmembers said parents and principals told them they need clearer, actionable commitments from the district about resources, staffing and how the district will track outcomes.
Ending: Staff will finalize the letter text with the council’s edits and transmit it to the LAUSD superintendent and board; councilmembers asked staff to continue outreach to principals and parents about local school-safety measures.
