Some Metro Atlanta Schools Talk Safety After Fla. School Shooting
Law enforcement officers block off the entrance to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Thursday. Nikolas Cruz has been charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder after Wednesday’s attack on the school.
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Fulton County School’s executive director of safety and security is driving from school to school today. Shannon Flounnory is checking on staff and students after a mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, yesterday left 17 dead.
Flounnory said school leaders have yearly, scheduled discussions about security measures. But that conversation happens again every time there’s a school shooting.
“We don’t have a knee jerk reaction,” he said. “We go back and look at our processes to see if we need to make some changes or we look to see if we have good processes in place that perhaps we need to fine tune them.”
DeKalb County School District’s Superintendent Stephen Green said it’s the same at their school system.
DeKalb County schools are getting ready to install metal detectors in five schools as part of a pilot program.
But that program was in the works long before yesterday’s shooting in Florida.
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