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Senate advances bill to collect school disciplinary data, narrows SRO questioning role
Summary
The Utah Senate amended and advanced Senate Bill 198, a transparency measure requiring schools to report disciplinary data to track juvenile-justice reforms and SRO implementation. Lawmakers removed a provision allowing SRO questioning and delayed the bill’s data reporting start date to July 1, 2020.
Senators on the floor amended and advanced Senate Bill 198, a measure sponsors described as a data-transparency effort to track how juvenile-justice reforms are implemented in public schools and how school resource officers (SROs) interact with students.
Sponsor remarks said the bill “allows us to view and get the data back so that we can see just how effective we're doing” and that the aim is to identify where system changes are needed. During floor…
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