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Police, districts describe SRO coverage and threats; subcommittee asks Fresno PD to map campus incidents
Summary
Trustees and police officials reviewed school‑resource‑officer coverage, summer zone coverage, recent threat responses and the limits of patrol capacity; Fresno PD agreed to start compiling campus‑impact incident data to guide targeted responses.
School and city leaders used the subcommittee meeting to review how school‑resource officers (SROs) and municipal police handle on‑campus trespass, encampments and threats, and asked the department to aggregate incident data to help target responses.
Fresno Police officials said SRO coverage is largely contractual: schools pay for officers for most middle and high schools, and when an SRO is temporarily absent the department uses 'zone coverage' and sergeants to fill shifts. The police explained they rarely have an uncovered school because the SRO contract obligates coverage and the department provides short‑term replacements.…
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