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Resident Urges Reassessment of Armed Security in Schools; Board Says Guards Have No Student Contact
Summary
A parent urged the board to reconsider contracted armed security, calling it ‘‘security theater’’ and citing research and a local deportation case; the superintendent said contracted guards have no student contact and do not enter buildings, and the board indicated no immediate plan to revisit the policy.
A Huntington parent told the school board Wednesday she opposes the district’s use of contracted armed security officers and urged the board to re-evaluate the program with community input, citing academic research and a local case she said illustrated risks when law enforcement is present in schools.
"I still feel that armed guards are security theater and an expensive unjustified measure," said the commenter, Courtney Andrille (recorded in the transcript as a…
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