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Parents, sheriff and state officials press for school resource officers; sheriff seeks $35,000 video-redaction service
Summary
Parents and state officials urged the Morgan County Commission to fund school resource officers to comply with 2024 school-safety law, while the sheriff asked the commission to consider paying for a third‑party video‑redaction service that would cost about $35,000 a year.
Ashley Fesselman, a Morgan County parent, told the commission the county’s elementary schools and one middle school lack school resource officers and urged commissioners to support adding deputies to schools.
“Having an SRO will possibly prevent violent activity or provide a quicker response if something does happen,” Fesselman said, noting that Morgan High and Mountain Green Middle School already have SRO coverage while elementary schools do not. She cited national statistics and recent incidents in nearby counties as context for the request.
Sheriff Corey Stark and Matt Pennington, state security chief with the Utah Department of Public Safety, joined the discussion. Pennington described options that comply with last year’s school‑safety amendment (referred to in the meeting as HB 84): a trained law‑enforcement SRO, private armed security that meets state training requirements, or a school employee volunteer “guardian” trained under state rules. Pennington said the state’s…
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