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The Question of School Resource Officers

*Update November 13* On November 12, the FUSD Board of Education voted 3-2 to adopt the recommendation of the SRO Task Force, which includes terminating the SRO program. The full recommendation can be viewed here.


By Web Editor Mahek Bhora & Staff Writers Tavish Mohanti, Larry Shi, & Mingxin Wang

On July 29, the FUSD Board of Education voted to reevaluate the School Resource Officer (SRO) program at FUSD high schools. To highlight all the perspectives on SROs on FUSD campuses, the Smoke Signal reached out to Board of Education trustees, SROs, community members, and students. The Board will be voting on the future of the SRO program on November 12 with input from the SRO Task Force, which consists of students, parents, community members, and board members.

 

Cover Graphic and Visual Spread by News Editor Alina Zeng

Jessica Yu

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  • The Fremont community, parents and labor representatives of the FUSD SRO Taskforce have been busy at work for the past month reviewing the FUSD SRO program. At the 10/8 meeting of the SRO Taskforce, various sub-task forces presented intermediate reports of their findings, building towards a final report which will be submitted to the FUSD Board on November 12.

    Videos of the SRO Taskforce meetings and all interim documents are posted for the public at https://www.fremont.k12.ca.us/sro

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