Fresno Unified Trustee Terry Slatic called his fellow School Board trustees part of the "radical fringe" in the Fresno community that opposes having uniformed, armed officers on secondary school campuses during a national TV network interview. Slatic's comments came during an early Tuesday morning interview on "Fox & Friends First"...
Trustees Keep Fresno Cops on Campus but End ShotSpotter
The Fresno Unified School District on Wednesday adopted a $1.5 billion budget for the 2020-21 school year that keeps Fresno police and Fresno County deputies on campus but deletes funding for the city's ShotSpotter program that helps police quickly detect and respond to gunshots. Trustees voted 5-2 to approve the...
Should Police Officers Still Be Assigned to FUSD Campuses?
The debate over whether police officers and sheriff's deputies should be assigned to Fresno Unified school campuses heated up Thursday evening during a special board meeting on the proposed 2020-21 budget for California's third-largest school district. Sixty people submitted public comments urging the board to end the district's employment of...