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Utica details SRO and SSO roles; district contracts with Utica Police Department and Oneida County officers
Summary
Assistant superintendent Kim Vile told the board the district contracts with the Utica Police Department for School Resource Officers; the district also employs SSOs/SPROs from Oneida County at elementary schools and reported staffing levels (two SSOs per middle school, four at Proctor).
The board heard a presentation on school security officers and how the district staffs buildings.
Kim Vile, assistant superintendent for business, finance and operations, said the district contracts with the City of Utica for School Resource Officers who must be certified New York police officers. She described the officersroles as focused on presence, relationship-building and support for staff and students rather than disciplinary enforcement: "They do not enforce the code of conduct. That is strictly done by our administrators and our administration," she said.
Vile said the district also uses SSOs/SPROs (Oneida County personnel) who are assigned specifically to elementary schools. She said the district typically has two SSOs in each middle school and four at Proctor, and described recurring training with the Utica Police Department and other partners, active shooter tabletop exercises and incident-command training.
The presentation emphasized community connections (college partnerships, parent partners) and repeated the districts intent to keep training and plans up to date; administrators said the building-level emergency response plans are not made public while the districtwide plan will be posted online. No policy change or vote on SRO/SSO deployment was taken at the meeting; the material was presented during the public hearing for information.
