As school officials are preparing for the new school year according to Carter County Sheriff Dexter Lunceford, a lack of funding at the department has left multiple schools in the area starting the year off without school resource officers.By law, the sheriff’s have to follow through with certain mandates, but Lunceford says providing SROs in schools is not one of them. He says there will be officers assisgned to the high schools, but not the elementary and middle schools.