Not every Madison County school will have a fulltime student resource officer when the academic year starts on Aug. 2.

But Madison County Schools, Madison County Sheriff’s Department and county officials said they were working to make sure there was an SRO on all of the district’s 28 campuses at some point in the school day. The district has almost 20,000 students.

“We have to look at this as kind of a work in progress,” Madison County Commission Chairman Mac McCutcheon said at the commission’s meeting on July 19.

He, Sheriff Kevin Turner and Superintendent Ken Kubik have had discussions about reaching the goal of having one on every campus, and McCutcheon, a former law enforcement officer, believes campuses will be fully staffed next year.

The commission approved an agreement for 19 officers this school year with the district and the sheriff’s department, with the entities sharing the cost for salaries, equipment and vehicles. The SROs will also have a supervisor sergeant.

Madison County Chief Deputy Stacy Bates told the commission nine schools will not have an SRO fully dedicated to their campuses. And Bates said some of the 19 SROs will cover multiple schools.