ACPS issues updated guidance on interactions with law enforcement
BY JENNIFER CABRERA
ALACHUA COUNTY, Fla. – Alachua County Public Schools has issued updated guidance for interactions with law enforcement on school campuses; the new guidance lays out a process for school personnel to follow and specifies the responsibilities of School Resource Officers, school administrators, the Deputy Superintendent, and the district’s legal office.
The guidance states that School Resource Officers (SRO) and School Resource Deputies (SRD) have the responsibility of serving as a liaison between the school, the principal, and outside law enforcement agencies. The new process lays out the following steps:
- If a law enforcement officer (LEO) arrives at a school, the front office staff shall immediately notify the principal.
- The principal shall promptly notify the Deputy Superintendent, who shall then notify legal counsel.
- The principal will confirm with the SRO or SRD the identity of the LEO.
- The principal shall confirm with the SRO or SRD that the legal authority for the law enforcement action in question has been verified.
- The principal and SRO or SRD shall cooperate with the LEO to ensure that law enforcement action involving any student is accomplished in the least disruptive manner possible for the student and in consideration of campus safety and potential disruption of school activities. Unless otherwise directed by the LEO, the principal will locate and escort the student to the LEO.
- The SRO or SRD shall obtain the required information to complete the district’s Release of Student to Outside Agency form. Additionally, the SRO or SRD will complete a law enforcement information report that outlines the circumstances of and identifies the legal basis for the law enforcement action. It is the principal’s responsibility to ensure both the Release of Student to Outside Agency Form and the law enforcement information report are completed.
- Following removal of the student, the principal shall promptly notify the parent(s) and the Deputy Superintendent unless directed otherwise by the LEO. In the event the parent or legal guardian cannot be contacted, the principal shall contact the other individuals listed as the emergency contact(s) in the student information system.
- If the school is faced with a situation that cannot be resolved by reaching other family members or other listed contacts, the school will need to contact the Department of Children and Families Hotline.
The document states that school district personnel “must not impede or interfere with [law enforcement officers] carrying out their duties,” and the “General Counsel’s Office and Deputy Superintendent’s Office must always be available to assist principals with any questions and concerns and to provide ongoing guidance as it relates to law enforcement interactions.”
The document concludes with the same instruction to all district employees that was at the bottom of the 2025 guidance: “All district employees must comply with directives from law enforcement officers. Failure to do so may result in legal consequences, including arrest for tampering with, interfering with, or obstructing a law enforcement investigation or law enforcement official.”
Click here to read the updated Guidance for Law Enforcement Interactions.
Click here to read the 2025 version of the ACPS Law Enforcement Interactions Guidance.
So…..what about violent offenders? Especially any repeat and/or violent acts against fellow students. Will they expel them to protect the other students?
That depends if they meet a Certain Board member’s requirements.
THE document concludes with the same instruction to all district employees that was at the bottom of the 2025 guidance: “All district employees must comply with directives from law enforcement officers. Failure to do so may result in legal consequences, including arrest for tampering with, interfering with, or obstructing a law enforcement investigation or law enforcement official
SO liberal woke school be prepared to go to jail when you interfere with ICE being handed out.
“The principal will confirm with the SRO or SRD the identity of the LEO.
The principal shall confirm with the SRO or SRD that the legal authority for the law enforcement action in question has been verified.”
Bear wants a police state here and in line with that fails to note that Ice officers regularly show no identification and actually wear masks and usually have no judicial warrant. He likes unidentified goons forcing their way into homes and schools and if they feel like it, executing citizens on the street. Hopefully the principals will tell them to go perform an anatomically impossible exercise on themslves if they show up at any of our schools that way.
Poor little snowflake, your melting away. You need more frosty ICE in your life.
Between #1 (“the front office staff shall immediately notify the principal”) and #5 (Unless otherwise directed by the LEO, the principal will locate and escort the student to the LEO”), it sounds like an active student shooter will have the run of the place, with room to spare. Parents need to remove their children from ACPS asap if they find this bureaucratic scenario somewhat troubling.
I would think that this would not apply to those types of incidents.
I would like to think that too, but, um, where does the “guidance” say so?
Difference is in progress threat to entire school with potentiallyloss of life, vs investigation of a crime. Law Enforcement and school board would not survive the wrath of failing to act.
0% of these people had any issues when Obama and Clinton were deporting criminals ….. they love criminals more than their neighbors who pay taxes and don’t work under the table ….
Maybe because Obama and Clinton admin weren’t breaking the law, defying court orders, racial profiling and killing citizens.
Immigrant crime is less than citizen crime
Many immigrants pay taxes
US citizens hire undocumented workers…
US congress purposely refuses to reform our immigration system because it’s a cudgel they use every election to divide working class people with lies and hate.
The Democrat Flavor of the day “ICE going after all the brown people and that is racist ”
Common sense ” Well Yeah – when you have 20 million illegal trespassers come South America, Haiti, Mexico and Africa under Biden’s watch they sure as hell will not look Swedish. That’s not racism it’s COMMON SENSE.”
Oh, ICE is here to stay for 3 more years like your President. And you dumacrats thought you were going to put him in prison. Lol!! You could not silence or terminate us and your actions then and now have probably sealed the next three or four Presidental elections and so much more.
Federal judge- Reyes says the plaintiffs “are likely to succeed on their claim that anti-black and anti-Haitian animus” motivated Noem. She is, after all, theatrically abject in her subservience to a president who says illegal immigrants (TPS holders are legally here) are “poisoning the blood” of America, are “snakes,” “garbage,” “not people” and have “bad genes.” He says he prefers immigrants from “nice” countries like Norway, Sweden and Denmark. He has said Haitian immigration is “like a death wish for our country.” He has imposed travel restrictions on 19 countries, all of them predominantly non-White.
MAGA is on the wrong side. Decent Americans know this and will not stand for it.
Lol, sissy rabbit
Hundred, educate yourself:
“Obama Administration: Often cited for high removal numbers, with 82% of ICE-arrested individuals in 2016 having criminal records, marking a focus on criminal deportations.
…reports indicate over 70% of those deported by ICE in late 2025 did not have a criminal conviction.”
https://www.cato.org/blog/5-ice-detainees-have-violent-convictions-73-no-convictions#:~:text=The%20same%20ICE%20dataset%20shows,with%20convictions%20or%20pending%20charges.
The statistic you cite relies heavily on framing rather than legal reality, and it is worth clarifying that distinction.
While it may be true that not all individuals deported lack a criminal conviction on their record, every individual who entered the United States unlawfully committed a federal offense by violating U.S. immigration law. Illegal entry under 8 U.S.C. § 1325 is a crime, and repeated unlawful entry or unlawful reentry after removal constitutes a felony under 8 U.S.C. § 1326.
The frequent claim—often advanced by advocacy-oriented institutions such as the Cato Institute—that deportations target “non-criminals” relies on an artificially narrow definition of criminality that excludes immigration violations themselves. This is a political choice, not a legal one.
In short, the absence of a separate criminal conviction does not equate to lawful presence, nor does it negate the fact that U.S. immigration laws were broken. Enforcement of those laws is not evidence of cruelty or political bias—it is the basic function of a sovereign state.
Accuracy in this debate requires acknowledging that illegal entry is itself a crime, regardless of how selectively one chooses to define “criminal.”
AC Reader, You can’t reason with the unreasonable.
It’s like trying to push a wet noodle in a straight line.
AC, putting aside your dismissing the difference between someone with a criminal conviction vs someone who may be guilty of being here illegally – that is not a technicality! – you should be aware of 2 things:
1. Among those rounded up, many have pending asylum hearings and are not therefore violating laws. ICE agents are showing up at immigration courts hoping to fill their quotas with those their attorneys rush to dismiss. Others they pick up, ship , and let them deal with the problem later. How much evidence do you need to recognize that ICE as run by this administration is untrained, sloppy, often brutal, and not up to the job. Noem shold be gone already and hopefully new leadership that respects our laws and consitutional guarantees, which are not limited to citizens only (nowhere mentioned in the bill of rights except the 14th) and according to long term court rulings.
2. Trump sold his deportation program on the idea that with illegal immigrants we are dealing with horrible criminals and insane people, an obvious lie too many apparently bought. He didn’t talk about rounding up mothers and fathers who have lived productive lives here for years and who’s families would be split, but that’s what most of them are, not convicted criminals. Regardless of your opinion on this – mine is that it is not only cruel for no good reason, but counter productive for America since we don’t reproduce in numbers sufficient to maintain our economy, let alone grow it – most Americans don’t want this. They do want a path to citizenship for those – most – who have lived those productive lives here and produced families and community. That has been shown in poll after poll and occassionally Congress gets a bill together with reforms in that direction, only to be shot down by Republicans. Last time was 2013 when it would have passed – Senate did pass it – but Speaker Bonner wouldn’t let it on the House floor.
So, the question you raise is about what is the most humane and beneficial solution to all, including our country. For most, the answer is move on to the next .You don’t throw 1st offenders in jail for many “crimes” and sometimes don’t even make the arrest. This one should allow continuance of asylum hearings at a minimum, and focus by ICE on those criminally convicted – as both Obama and Biden did.
But don’t forget the Obama cages. Lol
There is still difference between an immigrant and someone who is here illegally. The term immigrant implies legal status. Naturalization, Green Card or legal work permit.