Minnesota Governor Tim Walz reacted today to the growing number of law enforcement agencies pulling school resource officers out of schools due to some confusion in state law over allowable restraints.
Walz shared with WCCO’s Adam and Jordana at the State Fair they’re going to take another look at how the new law is written.
“The attorney general, we’re trying to get some folks to get clarification,” Walz said. “If we need to, we just come back and change it and make sure because those officers, we need to make sure that they and the students are safe. But we also need to make sure that we’re not using excessive force to break up a fight, and I think that was the intent of the law.”
Walz says any changes or clarifications in the school discipline law would not require a special session.
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