2019 Survey of Law Enforcement Personnel in Schools (SLEPS)

BJS is submitting a nonsubstantive change to verify and update as needed the roster for the Survey of Law Enforcement Personnel in Schools. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on schools and LEAs, BJS and RTI decided to postpone the second wave of the SRO survey until the fall of 2020. Verification of the roster is estimated to increase the overall burden to respondents by 72 hours. Memo attached. The proposed 2019 SLEPS is a new data collection aimed to fill the knowledge gap that exists surrounding police working in the nation's public schools. SLEPS will collect data from Law Enforcement Agencies on infrastructure supporting School Resource Officer (SRO) programs, such as funding, training, internal policy, and agreements with schools. SLEPS will include BJS's first officer survey, collecting data on SRO's career experience, training, and the regular activities in which they engage while working in schools.

The latest form for 2019 Survey of Law Enforcement Personnel in Schools (SLEPS) expires 2022-07-31 and can be found here.