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Policing our schools: Urbana's Cory Koker

By Amy F. Reiter
Sunday April 23, 2006

Robin Scholz

Officer Cory Koker shows Tyler Henderson he can't loan him the $5 he jokingly begged for in the hall of Urbana Middle School. Koker, an Urbana police investigator, is the resource officer for all nine Urbana schools.

Urbana school resource officer Cory Koker is charged with patrolling all nine public schools, with a focus on the middle and high schools. In his four-day, 40-hour workweek, Koker has a mass of responsibility. News-Gazette reporter Amy F. Reiter and photographer Robin Scholz tailed him on Wednesday to find out just how much.

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