Technology credited with swift legislation enforcement response in a current Georgia faculty mass taking pictures is being put in in Columbia County faculties.
About 70 folks gathered in Grovetown High School's auditorium Thursday night to study extra from Columbia County faculty and juvenile justice officers about plans in place to hold schoolchildren secure.
School threats and comparable self-discipline studies have surged statewide since a Sept. 4 mass taking pictures at Apalachee High School close to Winder, Georgia. A 14-year-old pupil was charged within the incident that killed two pupils and two lecturers, and injured 9 others.
In the times after these shootings, Columbia County faculties confirmed a spate of no less than 17 menace incidents and eight pupil arrests. And within the hours main up to Thursday's group discussion board, two extra pupils at separate Columbia County center faculties had been apprehended − a 16-year-old, in reference to a Lakeside Middle struggle that was captured on video and shared with different college students; and an 11-year-old who authorities say introduced a knife to faculty.
More arrests: 11-year-old, 16-year-old arrested for separate incidents at Columbia County center faculties
As a part of Apalachee's emergency security protocols, college and employees at Apalachee wore panic buttons that, when pressed, summons police and security officers to the scene.That warning system “prevented this from being a much larger tragedy,” GBI Director Chris Hosey said Sept. 4.
“We are implemeting these programs into the colleges now,” CCSD Police Chief Gary Owens said. “They're at the moment being put in in center faculties. There are two that are energetic now.”
Law enforcement methods will have to grow more sophisticated as telecommunications technology also grows more sophisticated, he said.
“It's a brand new day,” he said. “It's going to be much more concerned as know-how retains going additional. We're working with our know-how division to be sure we're up to that problem.”
The school district also has hired parking monitors to patrol schools' campuses looking for suspicious people or for security breaches that intruders could exploit. The first five monitors currently patrol each of Columbia County's five high schools. Plans call for placing monitors at all Columbia County schools.
Another piece of the puzzle in curbing school shootings is more analog: vigilant parenting. CCSD Officer Chris Knoeferl urged parents to watch their children for new or unusual behaviors, and not to be afraid to search their children's rooms and computer histories.
“Mom, dad, we will not hold these faculties secure with out you,” he said. “We want you to assist us do that. It's a group effort.”
The discussion board, now in its third yr, additionally included displays on bullying, medicine and gangs.
