Support Care not cops

Use the form below to testify in support of S.B. 119: An Act Concerning the Use of School Resource Officers In Connecticut Schools.

Please note: By using this form, you are sharing your written testimony with CT BBSU’s Community First Coalition (CFC). The CFC will then submit your testimony on your behalf to the Connecticut General Assembly.

If you’d like to testify in-person, use our testimony guide and template to get started and let us know via this form! Have questions? Contact our Organizing Director Shineika Fareus at shineika@ctbbsu.com.

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Written Testimony to be submitted to the Education, Judiciary and Appropriations Committees

LEGISLATOR NAMES and members of the EDUCATION/APPROPRIATIONS/JUDICIARY committee,

My name is NAME and I am a resident of TOWN, Connecticut. I am testifying in support of S.B. 119: An Act Concerning the Use of School Resource Officers In Connecticut Schools.

All students deserve to feel safe, secure, and supported in their places of learning. Yet too often our schools rely on policing to keep children in line, rather than funding professionals trained to deliver students necessary developmental and behavioral health resources.

According to research by Connecticut Voices for Children, there’s no evidence School Resource Officers (SROs) make students or staff safer, but schools with SROs have more arrests and more expulsions than their peer institutions without SROs.

I strongly support S.B. 119. I hope the Committee and Connecticut lawmakers will vote in favor of this bill. Together, we can build an educational system that centers the social-emotional well-being of students through care, resources, learning, and restoration.

Thank you,

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