Funding sought for more school resource officers in Anne Arundel County, Md.

From The Baltimore Sun: In an attempt to curb student violence and bullying, Anne Arundel County, Md., Executive John R. Leopold plans to seek funds for school resource officers at two more county middle schools. Leopold wants to use about $200,000 from the forthcoming county budget to pay for school resource police officers at Corkran Middle School in Glen Burnie and Wiley H. Bates Middle School in Annapolis. In October, a 14-year-old boy was charged with first-degree assault for allegedly choking a 13-year-old male classmate in a bathroom at the Corkran school.