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Ogdensburg City School District to have police officer on site this coming school year

Posted 7/18/19

BY JIMMY LAWTON North Country This Week OGDENSBURG – Ogdensburg City School District will soon have a police officer on site at the district’s schools. Ogdensburg City Council and Ogdensburg City …

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Ogdensburg City School District to have police officer on site this coming school year

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BY JIMMY LAWTON
North Country This Week

OGDENSBURG – Ogdensburg City School District will soon have a police officer on site at the district’s schools.

Ogdensburg City Council and Ogdensburg City School District have agreed to a contract that will provide an Ogdensburg City Police officer at the district.

A special meeting will be held Tuesday, July 23 at 5 p.m. at city hall, where council is expected to approve the deal.

The district has been without a school resource officer since 2013.

The position was removed and later added back in to the city school’s most recent budget.

In December of 2018, Chief Andrew Kennedy told the school board he’d like to dedicate a full-time officer for the job.

“It’s not that you can’t find a good part-time candidate out there, but I know what I would like to have and that is a person who is full time, fully trained, under my command structure, answerable to a supervisor, brought up through the ranks, young and desiring to be a full-time officer,” Kennedy said at the December meeting.

Kennedy said then that the Ogdensburg Police Department was looking to fill two officer positions and estimated that a full-time SRO could potentially be trained and ready around the beginning of the 2019-2020 school year.

Details on the contract were not included in the resolution.