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Duluth City Council presses staff for SRO training and discipline data ahead of Monday vote
Summary
Councilors asked for data and clarifications about the city’s contract with school resource officers, including training, disciplinary records and the program’s roughly $1 million cost; staff said training is provided and said it would try to provide disciplinary statistics before Monday’s vote.
Duluth City Council members asked city and public-safety staff for more detail about the school resource officer (SRO) contract, training and discipline statistics ahead of a scheduled council vote Monday night. Councilors raised questions about culturally responsive training, the number of punitive actions taken by SROs under the previous three-year contract, and whether those discipline incidents can be broken down by race.
Councilor Auwel said she remembered community “tabletop” sessions held during the prior contract and asked how advice from those meetings had been incorporated into the current agreement. She said, “there were some youth of color and some black youth who were specifically talking about how uncomfortable they felt that there's…
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