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Board hears security brief: district pays SROs, budgets $6M for security and is piloting AI camera and gun‑detection tools
Summary
Board members pressed staff on security staffing and technology costs; the district said it budgets roughly $6 million a year for security staff, pays school resource officers’ salaries for 10 months, and is implementing AI tools for camera‑based weapon detection and banned‑person alerts.
Board members pressed district security staff and administrators about school safety and how security personnel are assigned across campuses during the May 27 budget work session.
Chief security staff Mr. Gibbs told the board that the district pays school resource officers’ salaries and benefits for 10 months and that high schools have SROs in place. "We pay their salary and benefits for 10 months," Gibbs said when asked whether the district pays for SROs.
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