Tucked away in the back corner of Buena’s administrative building sits Officer Matt Thompson’s office. Treasured photographs of family, as well as a “world’s best dad” trophy sit on his desk, alongside the standard computer.
Thompson is Buena’s resident school resource officer (SRO), after the previous Officer Jamey MacLellan retired last year.
Although VUSD has had SROs on their campuses since the late 1990s, concerns over school safety due to the prevalence of school shootings across the country have led to increased numbers at school sites than in previous years…