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SRO policy updated to reflect state changes; committee says local practice unchanged
Summary
Staff presented MSBA-aligned edits to Policy 507.5 for school resource officers to add identification standards and a community-notification requirement if chemical irritants or diversionary devices are used; presenters and Burnsville police said they found no record of such devices being used in district schools in the last 25 years.
Chris Belmont, assistant superintendent, presented suggested revisions to the school resource officer policy in response to recent state law changes. Belmont said the edits clarify identification standards for officers and add a community-notification requirement if chemical irritants, smoke, or diversionary devices are deployed inside a school building.
Belmont said he had checked with both school administration and Burnsville police and "couldn't find any evidence in the last quarter century of chemical irritants being used by law enforcement in our schools." Directors expressed that the recommended language would not change past practice and recommended the policy be brought to the board for first reading.
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