In Gwinnett County, Georgia’s largest school district, students return on Monday and school leaders are finalizing several new safety measures following last year’s tragic mass shooting at Apalachee High School in neighboring Barrow County.
Gwinnett Schools Police Chief Tony Lockard says the district plans to hire additional school resource officers (SROs), aiming to place at least one officer in every school and two in each high school. In the meantime, the district is contracting private school safety officers to fill in where permanent SROs are not yet in place.
The district also plans to install weapons detection systems at every middle and high school in the coming months. Lockard says, “We’re going to introduce them throughout the 2025-26 school year, kind of a phased in approach.”…