In the near future, I will reintroduce SB 989, legislation that allocates $50 million to enhance the safety and protection of school corridors across the Commonwealth.

School corridors play an important role to our youth and their education. They are defined as popular pathways that students take to and from school buildings and the perimeters of the schools where children congregate. Too often we see incidents of crime and violence impacting the learning experiences of our students through unsafe corridors. In fact, Safe Routes Partnership, a national nonprofit which tracks school corridors throughout the country, gave Pennsylvania poor marks related to safe routes to school funding and supportive practices. This does not need to be the case.
 
The $50 million appropriation will allow for the hiring of additional police officers, the training and implementation of volunteer safe path monitors who work in teams to collect information and deal with suspicious activity, and, in necessary conditions, the installation and use of cameras to observe and protect our students as they go to and from school.
 
Please join in sponsoring this important legislation.
 

Statutes/Laws affected:
Printer's No. 0493: P.L.343, No.176