SB 209

Under current law, the Law Enforcement Standards Board reimburses each

political subdivision for the costs associated with preparatory training and annual

recertification training for law enforcement officers, jail officers, and juvenile

detention officers. A “political subdivision" means a county, city, village, town, town

sanitary district, public inland lake protection and rehabilitation district, and

technical college district.

Under current law, reimbursement to a political subdivision for annual

recertification training must be at least $160 per officer. This bill increases the

reimbursement to at least $320 per officer.

The bill also requires LESB to reimburse the costs of preparatory training that

were paid by an individual who completed the training and subsequently became a

certified law enforcement officer, jail officer, or juvenile detention officer in addition

to those costs that were paid by a political subdivision on behalf of a recruit.

Current law provides standards and training requirements for law

enforcement officers, but current law does not provide specific standards or training

requirements for school resource officers, who are law enforcement officers assigned

by a law enforcement agency to work in collaboration with a school district, private

school, or independent charter school. The bill requires the Office of School Safety

in the Department of Justice to develop standards and approve a certified training

program for school resource officers. The bill prohibits law enforcement agencies

from assigning officers after September 1, 2024, as school resource officers unless

they have completed a training program that OSS has approved.

The bill also requires OSS to maintain a database of all school resource officers.

Under the bill, OSS must include in the database the school district, private school,

or independent charter school to which each school resource officer is assigned and

when the officer completed the training required under the bill.