Bill Text: HI SR34 | 2018 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Requesting Federal Funding To Provide School Resource Officers In Every Intermediate And High School In Hawaii That Requests It.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-03-28 - Report adopted, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. [SR34 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2018-SR34-Amended.html

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THE SENATE	S.R. NO.	34
TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE, 2018		S.D. 1
STATE OF HAWAII

SENATE RESOLUTION

 

 

REQUESTING FEDERAL FUNDING TO PROVIDE SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICERS IN EVERY INTERMEDIATE AND HIGH SCHOOL IN HAWAII THAT REQUESTS IT.

 

 

     WHEREAS, there have been a number of recent school shootings reported in the news across the country, including Parkland, Florida; and Benton, Kentucky; and

 

     WHEREAS, in Parkland, Florida, a gunman killed seventeen unsuspecting students and adults at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, and in Benton, Kentucky, a student shot sixteen students, killing two other students, at Marshall County High School; and

 

     WHEREAS, in light of the recent increase in school violence, it is imperative that federal funding go toward protecting the students of Hawaii; and

 

     WHEREAS, a valuable resource to ensuring safer schools where students can thrive are school resource officers; and

 

     WHEREAS, a school resource officer is a career law enforcement officer with sworn authority responsible for safety and crime prevention in schools; and

 

     WHEREAS, the United States Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services offers grants to cities and counties for creating law enforcement positions, including school resource officer positions; and

 

     WHEREAS, in 2016, the United States Departments of Education and Justice jointly released the Safe, School-based Enforcement through Collaboration, Understanding, and Respect Rubrics to help education and law enforcement agencies that use school resource officers to review and revise policies to improve school safety and better outcomes for students; and

 

     WHEREAS, school resource officers also have the opportunity to build trust and gain respect from students by providing positive police interaction and outreach to students; now, therefore,

 

     BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the Twenty-ninth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2018, that federal funding is requested to provide school resource officers in every intermediate and high school in Hawaii that requests it; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Resolution be transmitted to members of Hawaii's congressional delegation.

Report Title: 

School Resource Officers; Federal Funding