The Vancouver School Board voted Nov. 28 to reinstate the School Liaison Officer (SLO) program. Officers are to return to the schools by Sept. 2023.
The program ended early last year after some said it has negative impact on the members of the visible minority community. Four days before this decision was made, B.C.’s Human Rights Commissioner Kasari Govender sent a letter to school trustees saying, “It is incumbent on you to produce independent evidence of a need for SLOs ... [and] to address the concerns raised by Indigenous, Black and other marginalized communities.”
