The state's largest school system, through a memo of understanding with the Mobile County Commission, agreed to spend up to $1.8 million to add the new deputies to each of the high schools.
Members of the Mobile County School Board of Commissioners during their monthly meeting on Monday, August 28, 2023. .Alabama’s largest school system, for the first time, is adding armed law enforcement officers to some of its schools.
Andy Gatewood, director of safety and security with the Mobile County Public School System, meets with the local media on Monday, August 28, 2023, in Mobile, Ala. . The 12 armed deputies will join the dozen unarmed student resource officers who have played a role within the school system’s security since 2007. The unarmed SROs will remain within their schools, helping to develop relationships with students and assisting in security issues, Gatewood said.
. The school system made the move less than one month after the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 dead. “We have seen that unfortunately things throughout the country have not necessarily gotten better as far as the violent acts occurring,” he said. “I think we realize that this is an additional layer we can put into place.”
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