The Ventura County Grand Jury has recommended that a school for emotionally disturbed students have a police officer on campus.
The Phoenix School at the Camarillo Airport does not now have a school resource officer. The Ventura County Office of Education, which runs the school, believes that having an officer on campus would escalate, rather than defuse, potentially violent situations, the grand jury said in its report.
But the school now calls police to its campus two to three times a week, the group reported.
The grand jury recommended that the school work with the Ventura County Sheriff's Office to have more law enforcement on all three Phoenix campuses. Phoenix has a campus in Moorpark, as well as another campus in Camarillo.
They also recommended that officers who might be called to a Phoenix campus have crisis intervention training.
The grand jury opened its investigation after receiving a complaint about safety at the schools, which serve students across the county and in the Las Virgenes Unified School District.
May 3, 2016
Ventura County Star
By Jean Moore
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