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Committee flags disproportional discipline, requests MOUs on SROs and juvenile‑referral data
Summary
Members asked for memoranda of understanding between the sheriff's office and Calvert County Public Schools, and discussed disparities in suspension/expulsion and juvenile referrals; Moschino cited 294 juvenile intake complaints in FY2023 and that 98% of referrals came from police (including SROs).
Committee members requested memoranda of understanding and data on the relationship between school resource officers and student referrals. A Safe and Supportive Environment committee lead asked Larry Titus to provide MOUs between the sheriff's department and Calvert County Public Schools, plus data on Office for Civil Rights investigations and juvenile‑justice referral processes.
During the needs assessment, Moschino cited juvenile‑services report figures: in FY2023 there were 294 intake complaints; 73% of those youth were male and 98% of referrals were made by police, which includes school resource officers. Moschino and other members raised concerns about disproportionality in exclusionary discipline, asking for suspension and expulsion data broken down by race, age and disability status to understand whether fewer incidents reflect more exclusionary discipline practices.
"One of the things that we know generally speaking about punitive exclusionary discipline is that's more affecting children with disabilities, black and brown kids," a committee member said, underscoring the committee's intent to examine disproportionality as the data are collected.
