A. The State Department of Education shall establish and maintain a three-year pilot program known as the School Resource Officer Program.B. School resource officers employed or contracted by school districts participating in the School Resource Officer Program shall successfully complete law enforcement active shooter emergency response training given by the Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training (CLEET) and approved by the Department of Public Safety.C.1. A school district participating in the School Resource Officer Program shall give first priority to employing or contracting with a law enforcement officer with sworn authority and training in school-based law enforcement and crisis response who is assigned by an employing law enforcement agency to work collaboratively with one or more schools using community-oriented policing concepts.2. If a law enforcement agency that serves the area in which a school district is located is unwilling or unable to provide a law enforcement officer described in paragraph 1 of this subsection, a participating school district may employ or contract with a retired law enforcement officer or an armed security guard who is licensed pursuant to the Oklahoma Security Guard and Private Investigator Act. The law enforcement agency that serves the area in which the school district is located shall preauthorize any individual employed or contracted with under this paragraph. The school shall require a background check on the individual. The law enforcement agency that serves the area in which the school district is located shall allow an authorized individual employed or contracted with the school district access to the preauthorizing agency's radio system, pursuant to this paragraph, and a police band radio system which may be used by the individual in the performance of his or her duties to be paid for by the employing district. A school district may use funds from the School Security Revolving Fund created pursuant to Section 5-148.2 of this title to cover the cost of the radio system.Okla. Stat. tit. 70, § 5-148.1
Amended by Laws 2024, c. 354,s. 1, eff. 7/1/2024.Added by Laws 2023 , c. 281, s. 1, eff. 7/1/2023.