RBUSD, City to approve policing partnership
Redondo Beach Police Department’s partnership with the Redondo Beach Unified School District will soon expand. File photo Redondo Beach police are a regular presence at Redondo Union High School, where School Resource Officers patrol the grounds with the aim of providing support to the school both as law enforcement and as a positive influence to Redondo students. Now, a partnership between the police department and the school district hopes to spread that influence across the city’s 11 K-12 campuses. Last week, the Redondo Beach Unified School District’s Board of Education approved their part of a two-year agreement with the City of Redondo Beach to essentially share the costs of a School Resource Officer’s salary. RBUSD will pay $100,000 annually to the City as compensation for RBPD’s agreement to employ one SRO who will be specifically dedicated to RUHS — essentially, little more than half of the officer’s annual salary. The City figures to pay the remaining amount of the dedicated officer’s annual salary, expected to cost $80,000 per year. A second SRO, already provided to RBUSD by the City, will then cover the school district’s remaining campuses, with a focus on the middle…
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