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School Resource Officer (SRO) Edgewood: The SRO duties at Edgewood Middle School were handled by Officer Kirk Leitch for the months of school in 2019. Officer Melissa Miller took over duties at Edgewood in August of 2020. As a review, the following duties are typically carried out by the SRO on a daily basis at Edgewood Middle School: • Assisting with traffic flow in front of the school ■ Ensuring the school is secured each morning • Providing a police presence in the hallways during passing times and in the cafeteria during lunch times ■ Investigating crimes that occur on school property ■ Assisting patrol by performing follow-up on cases that involve students or school property ■ Assisting with lock down, fire, and severe weather drills ■ Serving as a member of the school crisis team Providing police support to school dances and after school activities • Assisting at Pinewood Elementary/The Bridges/ALC as needed • Being a liaison between the school and the police department • Forming positive relationships with students ■ Maintaining the school radio communications system • Deescalating out of control students • Communicating with juvenile probation officers • Operation of the school surveillance system • Locating truant/missing students • Locating and recovering stolen bikes, electronics and other property Changes started early in 2019 at Edgewood Middle School with the ground breaking for the new construction to expand the school and update facilities. This year also marked the retirement of long time Principal Penny Howard and the beginning of new leadership at Edgewood under Principal Rob Reetz. The students have been responding well to the changes and are eager and excited for the year ahead. All of the students and staff at Edgewood continue working hard to meet their educational goals. The school continued to take a proactive approach throughout 2019 to keep incidents requiring law enforcement intervention to a minimum. This year Edgewood hired a new Dean and Staff members to further monitor and assist with student issues. Edgewood now has two Student Intervention Specialists (SIS) that go into classrooms to work with the Students and Teachers. This year there were two reported assaults and one disorderly conduct incident. Other reports included lost cell phones, some theft incidents, and social media issues. The cell phones were immediately recovered, property in the theft incidents were located and returned, and the social media issues were resolved with the