Bothell Student Tensions over Resource Officer Flare Into Large Protest at City Hall

Bothell High School students walkout in protest of school board vote to cut resource officer program

Bothell High School students are putting up a fight to keep their school resource officer on campus.

Bothell High students rally after school’s police officer is axed

The high school has had a stationed cop, known as a school resource officer, since 1994. School board members voted to end the contract last week.

Jake: Bothell school board votes to defund the police?

I thought the “defund the police” movement was safely in the rearview mirror. Apparently not — at least not in Bothell. The Northshore School Board voted 4-1 last week to eliminate the school resource officer program at Bothell High School (BHS), ending a program that has been in place for over 30 years. The officer in question is Bothell Police Department’s Garrett Ware, who has been assigned to the BHS campus since 2017. By all accounts, he’s …

Bothell High School students walk out in support of resource officer program

About 200 students attended the protest Monday after the Northshore school board voted to end the program last week.

Bothell student tensions over resource officer flare into large protest at City Hall

On Monday, one third of Bothell High School's student body left campus and demonstrated in front of city officials.

Bothell High school students stage massive walkout over vote that killed SRO position

BOTHELL — Several hundred Bothell High School students walked out of classes Monday, May 18, to protest the Northshore School Board’s decision to eliminate the school’s only school resource officer, ending a program that had operated for more than 30 years. The four Northshore Board members who voted May 12 to not renew the SRO contract at Bothell High School. L-R: Carson Sanderson, Elisabeth Sotak, Hân Trần, and Kimberlee Kelly. The students ma…