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Title 35. LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS AND AGENCIES · Chapter 8. EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING OF PEACE OFFICERS

35-8-27. Training requirements for school resource officers.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Session of the General Assembly of Georgia.

  1. (a)

    It is the best practice for any person assigned or appointed as a school resource officer to successfully complete a training course for school resource officers approved by the council.#

  2. (b)

    For purposes of subsection (a) of this Code section, the council shall maintain a training course consisting of 40 hours of training for school resource officers. Such training course shall, at a minimum, provide training in the role of a peace officer assigned to an elementary or secondary school, search and seizure in elementary and secondary schools, criminal offenses, gang awareness, drug awareness, interviews and interrogations, emergency preparedness, and interpersonal interactions with adolescents, including the encountering of mental health issues.#

Reading note: a word broken across two lines in the printed volume was joined by rule and could not be checked against the volume's own vocabulary. The official page linked below settles any doubt.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 35-8-27, enacted by Ga. L. 2017, p. 673, § 1-2/SB 149.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Session of the General Assembly of Georgia.

Text read from t35-t36-ch1-59-(v27)-2025-pdf.pdf, Volume V27, 2025 edition, page 301; merge action: bound only; file SHA-256 6c7b6bcea397.