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DPS seeks $21 million to sustain and expand school resource officer program, requests pay and staffing to bolster highway patrol
Summary
The Department of Public Safety told the subcommittee it needs $21 million in recurring funds to fully support current state-funded school resource officers and expand coverage, plus investments in pay, vehicles, IT and a new NG911 migration to address staffing and technology shortfalls.
At a Criminal Justice Budget Subcommittee hearing, Department of Public Safety (DPS) Director Dwight Woods outlined a package of recurring and nonrecurring requests to sustain the agency's law-enforcement, highway safety and school-safety programs.
Woods asked the committee for $21,000,000 in recurring funding to continue and expand the state School Resource Officer (SRO) program. "What we're asking for is for $21,000,000 in recurring dollars to continue to fund that program," Woods told the subcommittee, explaining that $3,000,000 of the current need covers a shortfall to fund the existing 430 officers and that…
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