Don't mandate officers in S.C. schools without paying for them, legislators told

The Post and Courier:  It's past time for South Carolina to have a certified officer in every school statewide but the Legislature must foot the bill, education and law enforcement officials told a House panel Wednesday.

"If you don't, it's just smoke and mirrors," said Maj. Dwayne Robinson Sr., a Chester County deputy and vice president of the state Association of School Resource Officers.

The subcommittee is trying to craft legislation aimed at preventing a massacre like last month's shooting at a Parkland, Florida, high school that killed 17 and injured 17 others. Don't study it yet again; fund it, legislators were told.

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