Marion County Sheriff Kerry Forestal wants lawmakers to add a new layer of accountability for the agencies.
INDIANAPOLIS — The Marion County sheriff is calling for more oversight of school police departments.says a teacher encouraged and recorded other students attacking their 7-year-old son with special needs.
Now, Marion County Sheriff Kerry Forestal thinks lawmakers need to add a layer of accountability to those school police forces in Marion County with a position like a safe schools czar to oversee them. According to an IPS spokesperson, the teacher in the video resigned before district could fire him and the incident was reported to the Indiana Department of Child Services, something the law requires of anyone who suspects abuse of a child.
Forestal believes such a position is even more important in the wake of tragedies like the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde Texas nearly two years ago. Nineteen children and two adults were killed in that mass shooting.
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