{"id":13316,"date":"2024-10-10T19:03:46","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T19:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=13316"},"modified":"2024-10-10T19:07:53","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T19:07:53","slug":"milwaukee-schools-sued-by-group-parents-over-lack-of-school-resource-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=13316","title":{"rendered":"Milwaukee Schools Sued by Group, Parents Over Lack of School Resource Officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/milwaukee-schools-sued-by-group-parents-over-lack-of-sro-hires\/\">https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/milwaukee-schools-sued-by-group-parents-over-lack-of-sro-hires\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"650\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/pjimage-2021-06-17T174032.568.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"defund milwaukee police\" title=\"School Resource Officers\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(The Center Square) \u2013 The Wisconsin Institute for Law &amp; Liberty filed a lawsuit for several parents of students against the Milwaukee Public School District for failing to provide the required 25 school resource officers in its schools.<\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin\u2019s Act 12 requires MPS to have 25 SROs in place by Jan. 1, 2024, during normal school hours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think MPS needs to take their input from the parents and put those safety resource officers in the school,\u201d MPS parent Charlene Abughrin said in a statement. \u201cOtherwise, it\u2019s just reckless and dangerous behavior left unchecked. No discipline, no consequences. What are we teaching our kids?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The WILL lawsuit cited several times this year when the SRO requirement was publicly discussed at board meetings or by district leadership, which acknowledged the requirement has not been met.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe actions and inactions of the board and the statements of these board directors all make clear they are aware of their plain duty under state law, but are deliberately not complying with, the requirements of Act 12,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/will-law.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Complaint-for-Writ-of-Mandamus.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lawsuit says<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin will be sending an estimated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/wisconsin\/article_3e892a28-8655-11ef-8208-0bcd7ad3b2e4.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$174 million<\/a> to communities in 2025 for Act 12 personal property aid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFailing to provide SROs has left students vulnerable and has forced Milwaukee police officers\u2014through 9-1-1 calls\u2014to pick up the slack when schools need assistance,\u201d WILL Associate Counsel Lauren Greuel said in a statement. \u201cMPS\u2019 failure to follow this law harms the entirety of Milwaukee by not only disregarding the safety of students but also by draining the resources of MPD that are needed elsewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/milwaukee-schools-sued-by-group-parents-over-lack-of-sro-hires\/ (The Center Square) \u2013 The Wisconsin Institute for Law&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":13318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-right-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13316"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13319,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13316\/revisions\/13319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}