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Senate circles SRO amendment after questions over contract and reporting language
Summary
Senators agreed on the need for memoranda of understanding and student-rights notifications for school resource officers but circled first substitute HB345 to resolve ambiguous contract-approval language and reporting overlaps before final passage.
Senators on the Utah Senate floor on the second-reading calendar on HB345, a bill to clarify school resource officer (SRO) roles and training, agreed on several reforms but voted to 'circle' the bill for further work.
Sponsor Senator Thatcher said the bill follows an interim working group and earlier legislation requiring memoranda of understanding (MOUs) between local education agencies (LEAs) and law enforcement, and emphasized protections for students. "It requires that students be given a detailed description of their constitutional rights," Thatcher said, arguing such notices mirror a recent bill that…
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