OCDSB Trustees failed to pass a motion determining that Nili Kaplan-Myrth violated the board's code of conduct with her text messages to Donna Dickson in November 2022 following the mask mandate vote.
The Ottawa Police Service is returning to city schools with a revised approach, assigning officers to support educators without being stationed inside buildings.Four new police officers from the OPS Community Youth Unit will be designated to respond to schools across every board in the city. The Ottawa Police Service is returning to city schools with a revised approach, assigning officers to support educators without being stationed inside buildings.
Teachers will be able to call their assigned youth officer directly, allowing for faster consultation.Ottawa-Carleton District School Board voted to stop participating in a programme that placed officers inside schools.that the new approach is in response to "a larger trend" of violence in schools and aims to build trust between officers and students.
"It was a collaboration between and conversations that we were having with the school boards, recognizing that these are some of the issues that we're seeing," he said.Vieira said the initiative will do more than address youth offending. "It just makes sense that if they have some sort of a relationship that's going to make it easier for the child... to feel the benefit of being referred," said Michael Hone, the executive director of Crossroads Children's Mental Health Centre.Ottawa Carleton District School Board trustee Lyra Evans led a motion in 2021 to get rid of police presence in schools across the city, and it succeeded.
"A designated point person means that there will be a little bit of consistency between who shows up when the police are called, but won't change it to a police wandering the halls, police being in schools proactively, which was the primary concern," she added,
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