The North Shore School Board voted Monday to eliminate the position, ending a 30-year relationship with the Bothell Police Department.
Bothell, Wash. — A Bothell High School senior has launched an online petition asking the North Shore School Board to revoke his Decision to fire school’s longtime school resource officer (Self-regulatory organization).
Brady Minneman starts Change.org petition On Monday, the board voted 4-1 not to renew Bothell High School’s service contract with the city of Bothell.
“They should vote based on what the community needs,” Minneman said. “Obviously they are bringing their own political and personal beliefs to this issue.”
As of Wednesday evening, nearly 3,000 people had signed the petition.
Officer Garrett Weir served as School Resource Officer at Bothell High School Since 2017.
“He was always there,” Minneman said. “A lot of people who didn’t have a lot of friends would talk to him. You could always talk to him, person to person.”
State law requires the North Shore School District to review its SRO contracts annually. This year, the board chose not to renew. Members cited concerns among some students, particularly students of color, about having armed police on campus.
Bothell High School is the last campus in the North Shore School District to have an SRO. The board canceled the program at Woodinville High School in 2022.
In a 2024 survey of Bothell High School community members, 77% of students agreed or strongly agreed that the SRO program promotes student safety. School principals and district administrators recommended continuing the program.
Ware will remain on campus until the end of the school year in June.
Next year, Bothell High School will have two campus supervisors who receive state-required training in social-emotional learning, implicit bias, student-centered instruction and restorative justice, district spokesperson Carri Campbell said.
A second unarmed campus supervisor at Bothell High School will replace the SRO position. Campus supervisors are school district employees, not law enforcement officers.
Minneman said the students won’t give up.
“Everybody’s kind of going crazy … trying to find a solution to keep it,” he said.
