- Kolby Casaday, a Haslett Public Schools alumnus, works as a school resource officer, leading safety drills and threat assessments across the district.
- State lawmakers are focusing on improving school safety, including expanding SRO programs and supporting tools like OK2SAY, an app for anonymous threat reporting.
- Representative Julie Brixie advocates for funding programs like Prevent 2 Protect, which assess and help at-risk students to reduce violence in schools.
Kolby Casaday is a Haslett Public Schools alumnus and now works in the school district where he grew up. “When this position came up, it was like a dream come true. I can remember having a school resource officer myself,” Casaday said.
His job is school safety.
State lawmakers are focusing on school safety overall for schools that do or do not have an SRO.
The officers have been part of school safety initiatives for lawmakers statewide since the 2021 deadly Oxford school shooting, and a new plan is in the works…