School Resource Officers and your student

How much do you know about the authority that schools have over your children?

Source: The Gwinnett Parent Coalition to Dismantle the School to Prison Pipeline. The group will present "What Your Student/Parent Handbook Didn't Really Tell You ...reading between the lines" Saturday at 10 a.m. in the Five Forks Branch Library of Lawrenceville.

1. School Resource Officers (SRO) are sworn Peace Officers and have the same arrests powers as regular police officers.
   1. True
   2. False
2. An SRO can use statements or evidence obtained by an administrator to proceed with a criminal investigation against a student.
   1. True
   2. False
3. In our schools, criminal and delinquent acts are looked into as a separate matter from the school rule violation investigation.
   1. True
   2. False
4. An SRO can seek and obtain arrest warrants.
   1. True
   2. False
5. In all cases students are informed of their rights, and advised that any statements given (written or verbal) can be used against them at a criminal or juvenile hearing.
   1. True
   2. False
6. An SRO can seek criminal charges against a student even when the victim and/or parents refuse to prosecute.
   1. True
   2. False
7. An SRO cannot interrogate a student in a criminal investigation without parents being present.
   1. True
   2. False
8. An SRO does not have discretion on whether or not to proceed with criminal charges.
   1. True
   2. False
9. Once an SRO opens a police investigation, the parents have access without a subpoena to witness statements other than their own child's.
   1. True
   2. False