The Hays Police Department’s school resource officers are using a nationwide program to promote the use of seatbelts, especially among teenagers. The two high schools have implemented theSAFE, or Seatbelts are for Everyone, program. Officer Nick Eiden says the program tries to be proactive in teaching kids to wear a seatbelt before they face the consequences of getting a ticket or being injured in an accident.

This month the police will heighten enforcement of seatbelt laws around the high schools.