A new piece of legislation at the Wisconsin Capitol looks to force troubled schools to hire school resource officers or armed school security guards.
The plan, which is up for a hearing today, would require schools across the state to report all ‘incidents’ that involve the police, a crime, or an arrest. If there are 100 incidents at a school, and 25 of them end with an arrest, that school would then have to hire a police officer or armed guard for the next school year. The legislation would also require the state’s Department of Public Instruction to pay for the armed officers or guards.
