The public hearing for #Bill4620 which would remove SROs from schools and bolster mental health services is beginning in just a few minutes! ⬇️ https://twitter.com/MoCoCouncilMD/status/1357457425239068679
Here we go! Follow along for some highlights here. 🧵
"Police officers are placed in a unique environment with limited training, reported by a recent
MCPD report as approx. 40 hours, to deal with children who have complex educational, health, social and emotional needs."

- Janeane Marks, JUFJ
"After having served [on the BOE]... we know that making our schools safer does not begin with handcuffs." - @mattlpost , former BOE member

#PoliceFreeSchoolsMoCo
"Instead of training police officers to act a little more like social workers, let's just hire social workers." - @NateTinbite, former member of the BOE

#PoliceFreeSchoolsMoCo
"There's a difference between policing students and protecting students." - Lauren Payne, Young People for Progress

#PoliceFreeSchoolsMoCo
"There are still too many non-students prioritizing their perspective over our well-being."

- Daniella Mehlek-Dawveed @mcabrutality

Thank you, Daniella.
"Remove SROs to end this textbook example of systemic racism."
- Allyson Bennett #PoliceFreeSchoolsMoCo
"We believe that SROs are not a proper solution to the problems facing our students."

- Ashanti Martinez, @CASAinAction
"We cannot continue a program that literally hurts the majority of our students." - Avery Smedley, Lead Organizer of Students Toward Equitable Public Schools and student at Einstein High
"By keeping [SROs in] schools we are prioritizing white families perceived safety over people of color's lived experience."

- Hanan Miles, Sunrise Silver Spring
"Racism in our schools, which is further incited through the SRO program, fuels the school to prison pipeline, and puts the future of my fellow students in danger."
- Sidra Hoffman, Einstein High junior and representative of Bonimot Tzedek
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