SAN JOSE — Law-enforcement and education officials in San Jose are drawing a line on the chalkboard over campus police officers at the city’s public high schools, revising policies to make clear their job is to ensure safety, not dole out discipline to unruly students.
San Jose police officers received a department-wide memo this week notifying them of a revision in the duty manual that makes clear they report to the city, not school administrators, and that their job is not to enforce school conduct rules.
“The enforcement of the code of student conduct is the responsibility of teachers, school staff, and school administrators. San Jose police officers shall refrain from being involved in the enforcement of disciplinary rules that do not constitute a violation of criminal law, or are not criminal violations eligible for diversion,” reads the primary revision in the SJPD duty manual.
[For more on this story by ROBERT SALONGA and SHARON NOGUCHI, go to https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2018/01/11/san-jose-police-schools-just-say-no-to-cops-as-campus-rule-enforcers/]
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