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Board accepts $175,000 Safer Schools grant to buy 9 open-gate weapon-detection units for middle schools
Summary
The board accepted a state safety grant and authorized using $175,000 toward 9 open-gate weapon-detection systems for middle schools; staff said the devices are faster to operate than traditional metal detectors and estimated a full fleet would cost $1.8–2.0 million.
The Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Board of Education on April 8 unanimously approved accepting and appropriating $175,000 awarded through the North Carolina Center for Safer Schools safety grant to buy open-gate weapon-detection systems for middle schools.
Jonathan Wilson, the district’s chief security and emergency management officer, told the board the district requested the maximum allowable $500,000 this year but was awarded $175,000. He recommended using the grant to purchase nine open-gate systems for nine middle schools and to buy necessary batteries and spare parts.
Wilson said the district has piloted “open gate” systems at several high schools and…
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