Loudoun County’s Board of Supervisors voted to remove funding to expand the school resource officer program into elementary schools from next year’s budget, a step the sheriff who oversees the initiative called “short-sighted.”
During a work session on the fiscal 2027 proposed budget, supervisors voted Monday night to withdraw the proposal from the spending plan. In its initial phase, Sheriff Mike Chapman said at least 15 SROs would be added to elementary schools, with the goal of having them on all 62 campuses within four years.
The first year of the program would have cost over $5 million. Board Chair Phyllis Randall, for one, urged Chapman to get the expansion into the memorandum of understanding that the program operates under…