Montgomery Community Media

Two State Delegates, representing Montgomery County residents, are introducing legislation in the Maryland House of Delegates aimed at reimagining police in public schools across Maryland. The two bills propose eliminating law enforcement officers in schools and redirecting the funds to mental health services. Del. Jheanelle Wilkins (District 20) is introducing the Counselors Not Cops Act […]

Councilmembers Will Jawando and Hans Riemer will speak to members of the media at noon Tuesday about their legislation proposing the removal of school resource officers from Montgomery County Public Schools. The media briefing will be live-streamed on the Montgomery County Council’s Facebook page. It will feature comments from former MCPS students; Avery Smedley, an […]

Two Montgomery County councilmembers said they planned to introduce a bill in the next six weeks that would dismantle the school resource officer program. Under this program, police departments in the county place officers in the schools and allow them to respond to school-based incidents. Councilmembers Will Jawando and Hans Riemer attended a MoCo Defund […]

Montgomery County high school principals are unanimously in support of keeping the School Resource Officer (SRO) program in place, according to a Board of Education meeting on Monday. In June 2020, MCPS formed a community workgroup to review the School Resource Officer program. The program currently places county police officers in all 26 Montgomery County […]

On this episode of Dialagondo, host Blanca Kling speaks with Captain Thomas Didone, Director of Traffic Division, he talks about our traffic enforcement, the consequences of driving while intoxicated, underage drinking and why parents should be aware when their kids serve alcohol in their homes when they are minors. On the second half of the show, […]

Fred Evans hosts the latest episode of Montgomery Week in Review. His guests include Jane de Winter, Kip Ingram, Stuart Rosenthal and Gilberto Zelaya. Topics discussed this week include the role of School Resource Officers in our schools, a Montgomery Hospice program for High School aged youth, the November issue of the Beacon newspaper and […]

The County Council’s Education and Public Safety committees discussed the importance of School Resource Officers at a joint April 27th meeting about the fiscal year 2016 operating budget. Take a look:

The Montgomery County Council’s Public Safety Committee and its Education Committee will meet jointly at 9:30 a.m. on Oct. 13, for worksessions on the County’s School Resource Officers (SRO) program and its program to have cameras on school buses to deter drivers who attempt to illegally pass stopped buses. The Public Safety Committee, which is […]

School security is on the minds of many following the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT. MyMCMedia’s Sonya Burke recently asked Montgomery County Council President Nancy Navarro if more school resource officers (SROs) should be assigned to area schools. Take a look.