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Parents press for improved metal-detector screening as board considers reducing lockdown drills and funding school security upgrades
Summary
Public commenters urged the board to tighten metal-detector procedures at Binghamton High School; the board will vote as the district delegate on a NYSSBA resolution to reduce lockdown drills from four to two and the superintendent said smart-schools funds will be used to study safety upgrades, including detector warranties and communications.
Multiple parents and community members used the Sept. 16 public-comment period to press the Binghamton City School District for stronger school security practices and to criticize how metal detectors are being used at the high school.
Aaron Thomas told the board he supports metal-detection screening at the high school but said his daughter walked through a detector with a phone, laptop and jewelry without triggering an alarm. “This metal detector is not being used properly,” he said, and asked for professional security staffing to operate screening equipment and for clearer ways for the public to contact the district outside board…
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