2023 Indiana Code
Title 20. Education
Article 26. School Corporations: General Administrative Provisions
Chapter 18.2. School Resource Officers
20-26-18.2-5. Reporting; School Resource Officer; Secured School Safety Board

Sec. 5. (a) Beginning on September 1, 2023, and each September 1 thereafter, each school corporation or charter school served by a school resource officer employed for the protection of the school corporation or charter school under section 2 of this chapter shall report on a form prescribed by the department of homeland security:

(1) the number of school resource officers serving the school corporation or charter school;

(2) the amount budgeted and the sources of the funds to employ a school resource officer or school resource officers to serve the school corporation or charter school;

(3) the number of school resource officers serving the school corporation or charter school employed by one (1) or more school corporations or charter schools;

(4) an attestation that the school resource officers employed by the school corporation or charter school have met the training requirements under section 1 of this chapter;

(5) the number of school resource officers serving the school corporation or charter school through a contract or memorandum of understanding with a local law enforcement agency or an Indiana business that employs persons who meet the qualifications of a school resource officer under section 2 of this chapter; and

(6) if applicable, the number of law enforcement officers who are not school resource officers also serving the school corporation or charter school through a contract or memorandum of understanding with a local law enforcement agency;

to the department of homeland security.

(b) The department of homeland security shall:

(1) annually compile the information reported under subsection (a); and

(2) retain the information reported under subsection (a).

(c) For purposes of IC 5-14-3, the department of homeland security shall keep information compiled and retained under subsection (b) confidential and shall withhold the information from public disclosure.

(d) The secured school safety board established by IC 10-21-1-3 shall include the following aggregate level information in the review and report submitted to the governor and legislative council as required under IC 10-21-1-8:

(1) The total number of school resource officers employed:

(A) in Indiana, including the number of unique school corporations and charter schools employing a school resource officer;

(B) exclusively by a school corporation;

(C) by one (1) or more school corporations;

(D) exclusively by a charter school;

(E) by a coalition of charter schools; and

(F) by a combination of one (1) or more school corporations and one (1) or more charter schools.

(2) A statewide overview of how school corporations and charter schools are budgeting for the employment of school resource officers and the employment of law enforcement officers.

As added by P.L.57-2020, SEC.8. Amended by P.L.150-2023, SEC.23.