Fremont Unified votes to remove police officers from school campuses

Fremont Unified is the latest California school district to part ways with police officers on school campuses. The school district, which is based in the San Francisco Bay Area, follows Oakland Unified, San Francisco Unified, Alum Rock Union and East Side Union High School districts in San Jose, which all voted to sever ties with local police departments and school resource officer programs this summer following widespread protests over the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd in May.

The decision in Fremont Unified, which has an enrollment of about 35,000 students, was made based on a recommendation from a 25-member task force created to evaluate the issue earlier this year, the Mercury News reported. About 70 people spoke in favor of removing police from campuses in a district meeting on Thursday when the vote took place, and about 30 said they wanted to keep officers on campus.