Virginia SRO/SSO Survey Data

If you are looking for data and interviews to help you make decisions about school resource officers duties and responsibilities, you might find value in this 235-page survey and summary of information documenting views by Virginia school resource and school safety officers. Funded by the Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs, the work was done at Virginia Tech for the National Institute of Justice. 

Administrators and executives looking for guidance on hiring, training, discipline, MOUs, and officer activities can find results of the detailed technical report, which is summarized here and provided in full text here. The report was not published by DOJ.

The paper, titled An Investigation of School Resource and Safety Programs Policy and Practice in Virginia, was authors by Gerard Lawson, Ph.D., Laura Welfare, Ph.D., Kazuki Hori, Alison Bowers, Cherie Edwards, Tom Bluestein, Patrick Rowley, and Ghadir Asadi.

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