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Parent tells Murphysboro school board her son was assaulted; asks for cameras and more monitoring
Summary
A Murphysboro parent told the school board her sixth-grade son was assaulted after school and urged the district to address surveillance and staffing gaps; district staff described added cameras, monitoring rounds and staffing challenges that affected SRO coverage.
Kimberly Brooks, a parent, told the Murphysboro CUSD 186 Board of Education on Feb. 14 that her sixth-grade son was assaulted by four students after school on Jan. 11 and that the incident occurred in a locker room area with no staff present and no camera coverage.
"He was able to get into the locker room after school … there was no staff presence," Brooks said, adding there was no camera capable of recording in that space. She said the assault caused her son to miss the bus and that the episode has made him reluctant to attend school.
Brooks asked whether the district had a plan to address safety…
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