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Lane Tech Votes To Remove CPD Officers From Schools

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Lane Tech's local school council voted to remove CPD resource officers from the school.

It comes after weeks of debating whether to take resource officers out of schools. Concerns about officers in schools have increased over the past few months, and there have been numerous calls to defund the police.

This led Chicago Public Schools to reexamine criteria for school resource officers. It's up to each individual school to decide whether to keep the officers.

 

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