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School resource officers outline prevention efforts, student outreach and mock-crash event
Summary
SROs reported on this year’s safety patrols, community events and student-facing programs. Brian Johnson and Officer Morrow described proactive presence in classrooms and large-scale events such as a mock car crash; both SROs emphasized relationship-building and prevention.
Brian Johnson, the district school resource officer, summarized his seventh year covering elementary and middle schools and emphasized outreach, safety-patrol activities and partnerships with local businesses and volunteers. He described a safety-patrol program that bolsters leadership for fifth graders and recounted community events in which officers and volunteers coordinated with partners including local businesses and public health staff. Johnson also described an unusual local incident involving a young bear, and said DNR and a nuisance-animal subcontractor worked to address it.
Officer Morrow, the high school SRO, said he attended SRO conferences and focused on being a visible, proactive presence in the high school: "We're gonna treat kids like adults," he said, and he described programming including alcohol- and vaping-prevention talks and a mock car crash demonstration that invited the fire and police departments to give students an eye-opening experience about consequences of unsafe driving. Morrow said the district brings in community partners (including a parent who lost a child to drunk driving) to give students first-person testimony.
Board members thanked the officers for relationship-building and prevention work. The presentations were informational; board discussion recognized the SROs' role in everyday prevention and in one-off community events.
