WHERE SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICERS ARE NOW
Brown Middle SchoolDalewood Middle SchoolHixson Middle SchoolHunter Middle SchoolLoftis Middle SchoolOoltewah Middle SchoolOrchard Knob Middle SchoolRed Bank Middle SchoolBrainerd High School*Central High SchoolEast Hamilton SchoolEast Ridge High SchoolHixson High SchoolLookout Valley Middle/High SchoolOoltewah High SchoolRed Bank High SchoolSale Creek Middle/High SchoolSequoyah High SchoolSoddy Daisy High SchoolThe Howard School*Washington Alternative Learning CenterChattanooga School for the Arts and SciencesEast Lake AcademyTyner Academy*These locations have two officers.Source: Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office
Hamilton County Sheriff Jim Hammond will use a $750,000 federal grant to hire six new school resource officers.
The grant, announced Wednesday, will fund six deputy positions for three years, and Hamilton County is required to keep the school resource officers on the job for another year after that, Hammond said. The county will need to pay $431,000 as a match to the federal grant.
The new hires will raise the number of full-time school resource officers in the county from 26 to 32. The grant was awarded by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services.
School resource officers are fully qualified sheriff’s deputies who work in area high schools and middle schools, both providing security and acting as mentors to students.