Allison Stice covers crime and courts for the Island Packet and Beaufort Gazette. She graduated from the University of Maryland and has lived in the Ivory Coast and France. | Some elementary schools in the district will have new visitors today.
Deputies who are part of a new School Resource Officer program aimed at young kids will be dropping in.
The 16 deputies chosen to participate went through an intensive training Monday to prepare them for their new roles. Instead of being posted at a particular school, the new SROs will float around the district during their regular shifts.
Read my article about the new program here.
We'll be checking in at the end of the week to see how the program is going. Do you have any questions you think we should ask?