1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Counseling Not Criminalization in Schools Act . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) Over the last 50 years, our Nation’s schools have become sites for increased criminalization and surveillance of young people, particularly Black, Native American, and Latino students, immigrant students, students with disabilities, LGBTQI+ students, students experiencing homelessness, students involved in the foster care system, and other historically marginalized students. (2) Despite significant decreases in the rate of serious crimes and violence on school campuses over the past 20 years, improving upon already low rates, 55 percent of high school students, 38 percent of middle school students, and 18 percent of elementary school students attended a school with a police officer during the 2017–2018 school year. (3) Since 1999, the Federal Government has invested more than $1,000,000,000 to subsidize the placement of police in schools, resulting in more than 50,000 law enforcement officers patrolling the halls of elementary and secondary public schools across the Nation. (4) A growing body of research has not found any evidence that police stationed on school campuses make schools safer, and the presence of police has been shown to increase the likelihood that children will be arrested. (5) Research has shown that schools with a designated law enforcement officer on duty arrested students at 5 times the rate of comparable schools without such an officer. (6) When police are present in schools, students of color face an increased risk of being assaulted by police. Student-recorded videos of police violence in schools regularly circulate through news channels, articles, and social media, exposing violence perpetrated by police within schoolhouse gates. Between 2011 and 2021, news reports detailed at least 285 police assaults of students. (7) Black, Native American, and Latino students are more likely than their White peers to attend schools with police officers on campus and