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To provide security for special school events or functions at the request of the principal <br /> or designee. <br /> Distinguishing Disciplinary Misconduct from Criminal Offenses <br /> Building level administrators, absent a real and immediate threat to student, teacher, or <br /> school safety, and absent the situations described herein where formal law enforcement <br /> intervention is deemed appropriate, shall have final authority. <br /> School Resource Officers are responsible for criminal law issues. Administrators are <br /> responsible for school disciplinary issues. Like other staff, School Resource Officers <br /> shall report school-related disciplinary issues or offenses to a school administrator. <br /> Absent a real and immediate threat to student, teacher, or public safety, student <br /> incidents involving public order offenses including; disturbance/disruption of schools or <br /> public assembly; trespass; loitering; profanity; and fighting that does not involve physical <br /> injury or a weapon, shall be considered school discipline issues to be handled by school <br /> officials, rather than criminal law issues warranting formal law enforcement intervention <br /> (e.g., issuance of criminal summons (ticket), filing of delinquency petition, referral to a <br /> probation officer, or actual arrest). <br /> Students shall not be arrested at school, except where a student poses a real and <br /> immediate threat to student, teacher, or public safety; or a judicial warrant specifically <br /> directs the arrest of the student in a school; in all other instances the execution of an <br /> arrest warrant should be undertaken at a location other than a school. Patrol officers <br /> may serve a warrant at school with the assistance of the School Resource Officer. <br /> School principals shall be consulted prior to an arrest of a student where <br /> practicable. The school administrator or designee will contact a student's <br /> parent/guardian, whenever possible, prior to an arrest. <br /> The student's parent or guardian shall be promptly notified of a student's arrest by a <br /> school administrator or designee when it takes place on school property. <br /> The SRO shall comply with Miranda and juvenile Miranda rules. If a SRO questions, <br /> searches, or arrests a student at school, all reasonable efforts will be made to protect <br /> the student's privacy. <br /> The SRO should inform a school administrator prior to conducting a probable cause <br /> search where practicable. <br /> 103 <br />