Chicago Board of Ed renews CPD contract for school resource officers, but that doesn’t account for all the police in CPS schools
The Chicago Board of Education approved the police contract during its meeting Wednesday.
But the 57 school resource officers funded by the new contract don’t encompass the full scope of the Police Department’s footprint in Chicago Public Schools.Active law enforcement officers have been hired as part-time CPS school security officers since at least 2018, according to the district’s contract with Service Employees International Union Local 73. The contract, which expires Friday, stipulates that new part-time security hires must “have the legal authority to effectuate an arrest.
Ahead of Wednesday’s vote renewing the CPD agreement, Board of Education member Elizabeth Todd-Breland asked CPS Security Chief Jadine Chou about the district’s use of sworn CPD officers as part-time security personnel. “That eligibility requirement will be removed,” Chou said, though a new SEIU contract has not been finalized.
In April 2022, federal court records show, CPS paid a $50,000 settlement to the mother of a McCutcheon Elementary School student who alleged her son was dragged down a hallway in 2020, when he was 4, by an off-duty CPD officer working as a CPS security guard.
“We are continuing to reduce or remove police presence in our schools, continuing our relationship with the Chicago Police Department, which we’re very thankful for, but also most importantly, we’re continuing to partner with the five community-based organizations,” Chou said at board committee meeting last week.
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