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Officials Field Questions on School Safety, Metal Detectors and Reunification Communications
Summary
At a Montgomery County press briefing, Councilmember Mauricio Casillas and reporters pressed officials about petitions for metal detectors, the role of school resource officers and confusion over reunification messaging after a recent school incident; county officials said budget and school-board authority factor into changes.
At a Montgomery County press briefing, council members and reporters pressed officials about school safety measures after a recent incident, including petitions calling for metal detectors and questions about the school resource officer program. Councilmember Mauricio Casillas, introduced himself as "Mauricio Casillas, MBC 4," and said parents had circulated a petition calling for metal detectors in Montgomery County Public Schools and asked, "Is that something that you would be open to?" He noted such a change "would fall…
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