Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Clover district installs weapons detectors at high school after $100,000 seed funding; district sought but did not receive DOJ grant
Summary
Administrators reported purchase and phased deployment of portable weapons-detection ‘open gate’ lanes at Clover High School and middle schools using a $100,000 district safety allocation; officials said a Department of Justice grant application was unsuccessful.
Doctor Quinn told the board that the district allocated $100,000 in seed money this year for safety initiatives, and Doctor Hopkins reported on the district’s work to add weapons detectors at secondary schools.
Doctor Hopkins said district staff evaluated several vendors and chose the CHA (open gate) system. The district purchased two lanes in October and had them in use at Clover High School for limited, random checks and at basketball games; Hopkins said the cost was about $18,000 per lane at the time of order. He said handheld detectors ordered to accompany the lane units arrived…
Already have an account? Log in
Subscribe to keep reading
Unlock the rest of this article — and every article on Citizen Portal.
- Unlimited articles
- AI-powered breakdowns of topics, speakers, decisions, and budgets
- Instant alerts when your location has a new meeting
- Follow topics and more locations
- 1,000 AI Insights / month, plus AI Chat
