Clay County Sheriff’s Office pulls resource officers from area schools

FARGO (KFGO) – The Clay County Sheriff’s Office has now pulled its deputies from schools in the Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton and Ulen-Hitterdal school districts.   

It’s based on the concern of law enforcement and police organizations across the state about the wording in a new state law on the use of force with students who are or may become violent, damaging property or causing a disturbance.   

Clay County Sheriff Mark Empting says it was a mutual decision with the school districts to temporarily suspend the school resource officer program until there’s more clarity from legislators and state agencies.   

Empting says he’s hoping the SRO program-suspension is temporary.  The Moorhead Police Department was the first in the state to pull resource officers from Moorhead area public schools after questions were raised about the law.