In response to recent school shootings, the Sarasota County School Board decided to create a school police department over the next two years. The plan moves away from using sheriff's deputies and [city] police officers.
School superintendent Todd Bowden said he aims to have a police chief and a lieutenant by the end of June (201 and he will have the board vote on job descriptions at the May 1 board meeting.
The district plans to hire 30 law enforcement officers in the first year and 26 the following year when