With the new school year underway, campus safety is top of mind for parents and students, and one Bakersfield police officer assigned to a local elementary school is urging families to stay alert and communicate early when concerns come up.<\/p>\n
Denise Johnson, a school resource officer at Crescent Elementary School with the Bakersfield Police Department, said parents and students should practice safety during drop-off and pickup, including being mindful when arriving at school and leaving campus. She also encouraged students who ride bicycles to make sure they have the proper gear.<\/p>\n
Johnson also addressed how families should respond to potential threats of violence, including talk of a possible fight.<\/p>\n
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\u201cParents should contact the school,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cIt may just be a rumor, but contact the school first to see what\u2019s going on.\u201d<\/p>\n
Johnson is in her first year as a school resource officer. \u201cI love the kids,\u201d she said. \u201cBuilding positive relationships with the students and having them see the positive side of law enforcement, especially on the campus. It\u2019s a great thing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the new school year underway, campus safety is top of mind for parents and students, and one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-433000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433000","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=433000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}