Dear trustees,

Earlier this year, in response to multiple community reports of harm, the Louis Riel School Division contracted an independent antiracism researcher to conduct an equity-based review of your School Resource Officer Program. You posted a statement in April saying that the resulting report of this review would be publicly released. Upon receiving the completed report, you voted unanimously to cancel the SRO Program and you announced a new antiracism initiative on October 5th. However, you subsequently voted to withhold the report.

I applaud the cancellation of the SRO program, but the fact that the Division has failed to release the report as promised is unacceptable. This research should be used to assist other communities in coming to terms with the fact that police do not belong in schools, and to clear the path for SRO and other school policing program cancellations elsewhere. The report can help to take the burden off of racialized and marginalized students who will not be subjected to the retraumatizing effects of having to tell their stories of harm over and over again.

Multiple calls to have this report released, including from local media, have been denied. You must revisit your decision in light of the information above and immediately release the report of the School Resource Officer Program review. Keeping this report hidden, a report that would greatly help racialized and marginalized students, is not in keeping with your recent statement that you will be adopting an "Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism Initiative."

Sincerely,