Retired School Cop: Lawmakers Need To Clear Up 'Gray Area'
Campus Police Have Varied Roles
POSTED: 4:29 pm PDT October 25, 2011
UPDATED: 5:54 pm PDT October 25, 2011
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Vince Matranga has piles of paperwork from research he did about the legal powers of school police departments in California.Matranga served as chief of police for the Sacramento City Unified School District from 1986 to 2000. He said he spent months during the late 1980s researching the limits of his department's authority."It was important for me to go through our legal department, county counsel, to make sure I had all the proper guidelines in place on the authority and jurisdiction of school district police officers," Matranga told KCRA 3 during an interview Tuesday afternoon.The topic has regained interest since last weekend's shooting of a Twin Rivers school police officer in Sacramento. The officer, whose identity h
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