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Under the law change, police officers assigned to schools — called school resource officers (SROs) — cannot use prone restraints, meaning placing a student in a face-down position. In addition, the law says they cannot “inflict any form of physical holding that restricts or impairs a pupil’s ability to breathe; restricts or impairs a pupil’s ability to communicate distress; places pressure or weight on a pupil’s head, throat, neck, chest, lungs, sternum, diaphragm, back, or abdomen; or results in straddling a pupil’s torso.” Officers working in schools may use these kinds of restraints, however, “to prevent imminent bodily harm or death to the student or to another.”