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Commission ratifies action to add one school resource officer amid statewide mandate, cites budget shortfall
Summary
Garfield County commissioners authorized pursuing an additional full-time equivalent in the sheriff—s office to serve as a school resource officer after state law changes that could otherwise require multiple officers and add roughly $1 million in local costs.
Garfield County commissioners on the record ratified a decision to pursue hiring one school resource officer after the sheriff described changes in Utah law that he said now mandate school resource officers and expand SRO duties.
The sheriff told the commission the new Utah law requires school safety provisions that could, because of Garfield County—s dispersed schools, have required seven to nine officers and cost "a million plus dollars," a sum he said the county cannot absorb given that roughly 87% of local property taxes go to the…
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