Brendan J. Lyons reports at Capitol Confidential that The New York State Sheriffs’ Association released a statement Feb. 22 requesting that the state Legislature add jobs for itself with at least one armed school resource officer at every elementary and high school in the state. “This will be an expensive undertaking,” said Wayne County Sheriff Barry Virts, president of the association, “but we owe it to our children, and their parents, to provide a safe place for education to take place.” There are 4,750 public schools and nearly 2,000 private schools in New York. The sheriffs did not estimate the cost of the program for New York's underfunded education system. There was an armed officer, Deputy Scot Peterson at Stoneman Douglas High during the Feb. 14 massacre, but he never discharged his gun during the shooting. Read the full story at Capitol Confidential.