A news release about the agreement between the school system and police department was released Tuesday afternoon, but the agreement was signed April 19.
“I hope you understand when we hear widespread comments like that from the public, it in my view erodes trust in the transparency in the whole Montgomery County government,” said council member Tom Hucker , citing social media posts from reporters about the lag before the public was notified.
James D’Andrea, the superintendent’s chief of staff, said participants from the school system and police department pressed for a hard date to begin the agreement instead of an implementation process. The school system began sending out messages to the school community in mid-March about upcoming changes in its relationship with law enforcement, he continued.County council member Will Jawando , who has consistently advocated for the removal of police from schools, argued that the school system hasn’t let other mental health investments take effect. Rather, it has focused on “a desire to respond to a horrible tragedy of interpersonal conflict between two students,” he said, pointing to the incident at Magruder.“The idea that this program is going to stop that, I think I don’t agree with,” he said. He asked why the school system wasn’t making more investments in people who are trained in conflict resolution and youth development, but is instead focusing on creating a training for police officers to do that. McKnight said “it’s not an either or.” The training would be a conduit to help tackle some of the systemic issues surrounding the relationship between students and police. She promised the school system would host monthly meetings to review data that would evaluate how the law enforcement presence was impacting students.
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