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CDP Declines To Renew Program With Columbus Schools

WCBE 90.5FM | By Jim Letizia
Published July 7, 2020 at 5:10 AM EDT
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The Columbus Division of Police is not renewing its high school resource officer program with Columbus City Schools.  

The jobs of 20 high school resource officers and two sergeants will be eliminated.  The district had been considering not renewing the deal amid protests over police brutality.
 

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Jim Letizia
Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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