The Wisconsin Assembly is scheduled to vote on a Republican-backed measure that would require schools with a high number of crimes to hire police officers to be located in school buildings. Under the bill, if a school has more than 100 incidents in a semester, and at least 25 of those result in an arrest, the school must hire an armed school resource officer to work at the school. The cost of hiring the officer would be partially reimbursed by the state using federal COVID-19 relief money. Another bill up for a vote Tuesday would require schools to collect and report information about crimes on school grounds.
