The National Association of School Resource Officers

NASRO Mission

The National Association of School Resource Officers (NASRO) is dedicated to providing the highest quality of training to school-based law enforcement officers to promote safer schools and safer children. NASRO is an organization for school-based law enforcement officers, school administrators, and school security/safety professionals working as partners to protect students, faculty and staff, and their school community.

NASRO, the world’s leader in school-based policing, is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1991 with an unrelenting commitment to school safety. Learn more about NASRO and school policing.

Our Frequently Asked Questions page provides answers to many important questions about school resource officers.

Our report, “To Protect & Educate: The School Resource Officer and the Prevention of Violence in Schools” provides valuable statistics that document the benefits of appropriately implemented school policing programs. Check it out.

NASRO has adopted Standards and Best Practices for the School Resource Officer Programs and supports the need for the standards to be used as a guide for new and existing SRO units and for the best practices to be reviewed and adopted by all law enforcement, school safety agencies and school boards, as recommended.

Read NASRO’s “Position Statement on Police Involvement in Student Discipline,” which provides important information on best practices for school policing.

Why join NASRO?

School resource officers, law enforcement officers, school administrators, school board members, school safety professionals and others interested in protecting schools enjoy many benefits, including those listed below. Join or renew now!

• Up to a $50 discount on registrations for our annual National School Safety Conference and for all of our other courses, including the Basic and Advanced.
• Mailed hard copy of our quarterly Journal of School Safety, plus access to back issues via our website.
• Frequently updated “School Safety Law Blog” by Bernie James, Professor of Law at Pepperdine University.
• Exclusive access to our School Law Database, which includes statutes and court decisions on public education and school safety.
• Resources such as sample Memoranda of Understanding, best practices for body-worn cameras, and online investigation resources.
• Members-only e-mail group where members share ideas.
• Lesson plans on topics such as Internet safety, alcohol, community policing, crime prevention, distracted driving and driver’s education.
• Prepared presentations for parents and community groups.

In addition, membership dues help NASRO continue its global advocacy of school policing and best practices. Join or renew now!

Click HERE for a tutorial on creating a profile and/or registering for a class.

Scholarship for Attending the New Basic Course

NASRO’s Basic SRO course has undergone a massive re-write in the last two years, and the new course is packed with updated, valuable information, including: The Teen Brain, Social Media, Human Trafficking, Violence and Victimization, and Developing Successful Relationships with Diverse Students.  If it has been more than three years since you attended the NASRO Basic SRO course, we strongly urge you to consider returning to take the new course.  NASRO is offering a $100 discount to anyone who has taken the NASRO Basic SRO Course previously. Basic Course Scholarship Application

NASRO Newsline

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  California, Rhode Island police officers named National School Resource Officers of the Year

  Organization honors four other school resource officers for valor

  June 24, 2019 – PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. – The National Association of School Resource Officers (NASRO) today presented its Floyd Ledbetter National School Resource Officer of the Year Award to two police officers — one from California and one from Rhode Island.

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  School Shootings Focus of Several Sessions at National School Safety Conference

  Annual NASRO Conference Begins June 23 in Pigeon Forge, Tenn.

  Editors: Contact Jay Farlow (info below) for full-access conference press credentials.

  June 3, 2019 – Hoover, Ala. – Assessing the threat of, training for,

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  Violent crime expert to open national school safety conference

  Editors: Contact Jay Farlow (info below) for full-access conference press credentials.

  April 15, 2019 — HOOVER, Ala. — A keynote address by one of the world’s foremost experts in the field of human aggression and the roots of violence and violent crime will open the 2019 National Association of School Resource Officers’ (NASRO) national school safety conference in Pigeon Forge,

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  Specialized training shouldn’t be optional for school resource officers — NASRO to Education Dive

  “Despite the existence of multiple training opportunities, there’s a catch: NASRO’s training, along with that of several other organizations, is often optional — though (NASRO executive director) Canady said ‘it shouldn’t be.’”

  That’s an excerpt from a story by Education Dive: K12 that looks at the importance of specialized training for school resource officers,

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  NASRO applauds Baltimore school board decision on arming police

  Feb. 27, 2019 – Hoover, Ala. – The National Association of School Resource Officers (NASRO) released a statement today applauding a decision by the Baltimore City Public Schools Board of School Commissioners to support proposed state legislation that would allow members of school police departments in Maryland to carry their service weapons at all times on school campuses.

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