Ensuring Safer Schools Act of 2025
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- House
- Sponsors
- 2
- Latest action
- Apr 8, 2025
What it does
The Ensuring Safer Schools Act of 2025 would prioritize the hiring and training of veterans and retired law enforcement officers as school resource officers by amending the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to allow COPS grant funds to be used for this purpose, give preferential consideration to grant applications focused on hiring such personnel, and require annual mental health screenings and training for school resource officers. It also mandates coordination with the Department of Veterans Affairs to connect veterans seeking these roles with local law enforcement agencies involved in school-based partnerships and adds a definition requiring school resource officers to…
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Where it stands
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Who is involved
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Where it goes next
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