Concerned with the potential impact of an Ohio attorney general legal opinion that determined private schools in townships aren’t permitted to contract with local law enforcement for services, state Sen. Al Cutrona, R-Canfield, plans to introduce legislation to permit it.

“It’s absolutely essential that the safety of students in Ohio is the top priority,” Cutrona said. “We want to clean up the language so law enforcement can provide resource officers.”

In a Sept. 16 legal opinion, Attorney General Dave Yost, a Republican, determined that townships that don’t have home rule lack “authority to directly enter into a memorandum of understanding with a chartered nonpublic school to provide school resource officer services to the school” under state law.

The legal opinion came in response to

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