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Chair Encarnación asks about school safety officer training alignment

New York City Council · Sep 22, 2026 · starts 1:04:02 · 49 sec

Chair Encarnación asks how aligned trainings are for school safety officers and school staff, since school safety falls under NYPD. Ali says training applies to school safety agents and frontline staff, but MOIA will follow up on who exactly trains school safety agents.

Elsie Encarnación

And then also just thinking about the public schools and knowing that school safety falls under NYPD.

Elsie Encarnación

And so are they getting how different or aligned are the trainings for school safety officers to actual staff in the school building?

Faiza Ali

So the training applies to school safety agents and all frontline staff in New York City public schools.

Elsie Encarnación

And so that comes, so school safety agents are being trained through the Department of Education, not through the armed.

Elsie Encarnación

The NYPD?

Faiza Ali

On this, we'll have to defer to our New York City Public Schools team, but we can also follow up and get clarity on who is exactly training the school safety agents.

Elsie Encarnación

Perfect.

Elsie Encarnación

Sometimes those who don't talk.

Elsie Encarnación

So we want to make sure that everybody is on the same line.