Sheriff’s Dept. adding school resource officers

Deputy Jessica Pendleton; photo courtesy of BCSD
Deputy Teancum Clark; photo courtesy of BCSD

The Bartholomew County Sheriff’s Office plans to add two uniformed school resource officers in county schools once classes resume at the start of the year.

Sheriff Matt Myers says that deputies perform hundreds of school security checks each year performed by various deputies. Now, he says the department will provide two full-time school resource deputies to schools in Bartholomew County.

Sheriff Myers says that Deputy Jessica Pendleton, an 11-year BCSO veteran, will work with the Flat Rock-Hawcreek School Corporation and Deputy Teancum Clark will work with the Bartholomew Consolidated School Corp. Deputy Clark has been with the Sheriff’s Office for five years.