‘Our first job is to keep your children safe’: Salem-Keizer School District installing weapons detectors in all middle schools

KEIZER, Ore. — As students have started settling into the school year, one local district is taking some extra safety steps.

Salem-Keizer middle schools will be getting weapons detectors over the course of this school year, just one year after they were installed in the high schools.

The district’s safety director Chris Baldridge said the implementation of weapons detectors in middle schools stems from what he calls “disturbing” data out of Marion County…

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