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Acton and Boxborough school resource officers review year of in-school work and training
Summary
Detective A.J. Rotella and Boxborough SROs presented a year-end report describing training, daily duties, incidents logged and community outreach. Committee members asked about social media-related harms, restorative justice, data tracking, and how the memorandum of understanding affects information-sharing with schools.
Detective A.J. Rotella, the Acton school resource officer, told the Acton-Boxborough Regional School Committee on Monday evening that SROs see themselves as faculty partners and community resources rather than primary school disciplinarians.
"We are school resource officers. We are career law enforcement officers with sworn authority ... assigned by our employer, the police department, to collaborate with the schools," Rotella said, describing SRO duties and the training the officers receive.
The presentation summarized training (NASRO certification, annual conferences, ALICE active-shooter training, crisis intervention and suicide-prevention courses), year-to-date calls and program work: youth academy and summer internships, restorative-justice referrals, mental-health responses…
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