THIS POLICE DEPARTMENT AT THE REQUEST OF THE TOWN.
MANY PARENTS UNSETTLED AT WHAT IT REVEALS.
THERE’S ONE SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICER TO OVERSEE ALL 3 SCHOOLS IN FARMINGTON.
IN A REPORT REQUESTED BY SELECTMEN, THE POLICE DEPARTMENT ISSUING A LIST OF SAFETY CONCERNS IT SAYS COMES FROM A LACK OF COMMUNICATION AND COOPERATION BY THE DISTRICT.
>> IT CAME TO LIGHT WHEN REALIZING THAT WE WERE GETTING A NEW SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICER NEXT YEAR.
THE CURRENT ONE HAD ONLY BEEN IN THERE FOR THIS YEAR.
LOOKING BACK, WE HAD CHANGED SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICERS FREQUENTLY.
JENNIFER C: PARENTS SHARING IT ONLINE.
>> I READ THE REPORT AND AM HORRIFIED.
>> YOU WONDER WHAT IS GOING ON.
JENNIFER C: THE REPORT POINTS TO INTERFERENCE WITH INVESTIGATIONS, A LACK OF AWARENESS OF SAFETY, DISCIPLINARY, AND REPORTING POLICIES AND TEACHERS TELLING
THEM THAT THEY DON’T FEEL SAFE.
THE REPORT CITES TWO RECENT EXAMPLES, ONE INVOLVING AN ALLEGED STUDENT ASSAULT IN LATE MARCH.
THE SRO SAYS IT WAS PARENTS WHO NOTIFIED HIM.
AND, WHEN HE FOLLOWED UP WITH ADMISTRATORS HE WAS INFORMED THERE WOULDN’T BE DISCIPLINARY ACTION.
HE SAYS THIS WAS AN UNPROVOKED ATTACK, OCCURRED WHILE A STUDENT WAS TALKING WITH A TEACHER, THE SAU ATTEMPTED TO JUSTIFY THE AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR BECAUSE HE WAS A STALKER, DESPITE NO
REPORTS OR INFORMATION SUPPORTING THIS." ANOTHER INVOLVES AN INCIDENT REPORTED TO THE SRO BY A TEACHER ON MARCH 29, TEN DAYS AFTER IT OCCURRED, IT, ’, INVOLVED A
STUDENT GRABBING A HAMMER AND THREATENING TO ASSAULT A TEACHER.
THE STUDENT ALSO GRABBED A PLASTIC INSTRUMENT AND THREATENED THE TEACHER A SUBSEQUENT TIME.
THE SRO SAYS HE WAS NEVER PROVIDED A REPORT, AND THAT THE TEACHER DID NOT FEEL SAFE.
THE TOWN ADMINISTRATOR SAYS HE HAS FULL CONFIDENCE IN POLICE ABILITY TO KEEP THE SCHOOLS SAFE.
THE SCHOOL BOARD, A SEPARATE ENTITY, GOT THE REPORT YESTERDAY.
THE CHAIR ISSUING A STATEMENT SAYING THEY WILL LAUNCH AN INVESTIGATION INTO SOME OF