{"id":271675,"date":"2026-04-17T00:23:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T00:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/271675\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T00:23:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T00:23:41","slug":"sacramento-school-district-seeks-to-restore-police-presence-after-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/271675\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento school district seeks to restore police presence after shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"update-label\">News Brief<\/p>\n<p class=\"update-date\">Thursday, April 16, 2026 \u2014 10:19 am<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-news-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/iStock-1318369216-1024x683.jpg\"\/>            <\/p>\n<p>Following a fatal shooting, school district officials in Sacramento are pushing to return police officers to campuses<\/p>\n<p>Leaders of the Natomas Unified School District are asking the city of Sacramento to again provide school resource officers. The city backed out of a $2.1 million contract to provide the district with school resource officers last year, citing staffing shortages, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/local\/education\/article315423215.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sacramento Bee reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The request follows the fatal shooting of 16-year-old De\u2019Jon Sledge at Natomas High School on Friday. The Sacramento County District Attorney said that a student shot Sledge during a \u201cviolent attempted robbery,\u201d categorizing the shooter\u2019s actions as self-defense, the newspaper reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile we recognize the difficult reality that no system can eliminate every risk, we continuously reevaluate and strengthen our processes and procedures as part of our commitment to the safety of our students and staff,\u201d district officials said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the city told The Bee the request is being considered.<\/p>\n<p>            More News Briefs                <\/p>\n<p class=\"latest-date\">\n                    Thursday, April 16, 2026, 4:01 pm                  <\/p>\n<p>                  <a href=\"http:\/\/edsource.org\/news-updates#more-students-earn-undergraduate-degrees-and-certificates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More students earn undergraduate degrees and certificates<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"latest-date\">\n                    Thursday, April 16, 2026, 10:11 am                  <\/p>\n<p>                  <a href=\"http:\/\/edsource.org\/news-updates#decision-to-keep-the-bible-in-redlands-school-libraries-called-hypocritical\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Decision to keep the Bible in Redlands school libraries called hypocritical<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"latest-date\">\n                    Wednesday, April 15, 2026, 10:43 am                  <\/p>\n<p>                  <a href=\"http:\/\/edsource.org\/news-updates#trump-administration-issues-ai-focused-priorities-for-new-education-grants\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump administration issues AI-focused priorities for new education grants<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"latest-date\">\n                    Wednesday, April 15, 2026, 9:53 am                  <\/p>\n<p>                  <a href=\"http:\/\/edsource.org\/news-updates#california-teachers-association-recommends-tom-steyer-for-governor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">California Teachers Association recommends Tom Steyer for governor<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"latest-date\">\n                    Tuesday, April 14, 2026, 2:13 pm                  <\/p>\n<p>                  <a href=\"http:\/\/edsource.org\/news-updates#education-nonprofits-announce-new-ai-focused-college\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Education nonprofits announce new AI-focused college<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"News Brief Thursday, April 16, 2026 \u2014 10:19 am Following a fatal shooting, school district officials in Sacramento&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-271675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}