The Duval County Public School board discussed a recently released report from a Florida grand jury that accuses the former director of DCPS Police Department of severely underreporting instances of crimes on school campuses over a four-year period.
The workshop was set a week before the previously scheduled update, in direct response to anThe letter said, “we have reason to believe that some of the policies and actions the grand jury found are ongoing and require immediate action. This includes, but is not limited to: School officials violated – and continue to violate – state law by systematically underreporting incidents of criminal activity to the Florida Department of Education.
Though the school years of 2016-2017, 2017-2018, and 2018-2019 show DCPS was reporting SESIR incidents to law enforcement at a much smaller rate than the state average, the school years of 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 showed that it became consistent with the state average.The data falls in line with the school district’s narrative that it initiated “process improvement” to create reporting safeguards and accountability following the January 2020 resignation of DCPS Police director Micheal Edwards.
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