Required Reports All mandated reports are posted publicly on the MCSS website at Resources - Reports, Documents, and Data. Incidents of Force Report Ed. Art. § 7-1508(h)(2) Annually, MCSS shall submit a report on the data on incidents of use of force between any school resource officer (SRO) or school security employee (SSE) and a student, while an SRO or SSE is carrying out their duties. Critical Life-Threatening Incident Reports Each Local Education Agency (LEA) is required to conduct an after action review meeting following a critical, life-threatening (CLT) incident and submit a report to MCSS. MCSS is required to submit a summary of lessons learned and recommendations to the Governor and Maryland General Assembly. School Resource Officer - Adequate Coverage Report Ed. Art. § 7-1502(g)(18) and § 7-1508(e)(3) Ed. Art. §7-1510(g) COMAR 14.40.05 Annually, MCSS shall provide the Governor and General Assembly with a summary of the SRO and adequate law enforcement coverage 1 that each LEA shares with MCSS at the start of the school year. Information collected in August 2024 indicates that 278 schools have a full time SRO, a decrease of 10 schools from 2023, while 1,144 Maryland public schools are provided adequate law enforcement coverage through other means.
1 Each LEA’s report must include the public schools in the LEA’s jurisdiction that have a full-time SRO assigned to the school; and, if a public school in the LEA’s jurisdiction is not assigned a full-time SRO, the adequate local law enforcement coverage that will be provided to the public school.
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