Less than a year after four people were killed in the deadliest school shooting in Georgia history, county officials said they won’t continue to split the cost for school resource officers in the Barrow County School District.
It means the district northeast of Atlanta is on the hook for an unexpected bill of nearly $1 million, district staff said at a meeting this week. The school board is planning to raise taxes to cover it.
“I am deeply concerned with the Board of Commissioners’ underlying notion that 2,000-plus Barrow school system employees and over 15,000 Barrow County students are no longer included in their definition of public safety,” said school board member Kayla Hendrix this week.
After school shooting, Barrow County struggling to hire resource officers
School resource officers were credited with quickly apprehending the alleged shooter on Sept. 4. A student at the school is accused of killing four people and injuring nine others…