CLAY COUNTY, Fla. – Clay County Schools and the Clay County Sheriff’s Office will begin bringing K-9 units into high schools to search for weapons, drugs and other prohibited items, the district said.
The program, called “K-9s on campus,” calls for regular sweeps by trained police dogs in areas such as parking lots and lockers. The move follows an incident last week in which deputies charged an 18-year-old student after a loaded handgun was found in a car in the Ridgeview High School parking lot.
“A dog that has been trained to smell out narcotics, bombs — whatever — has the ability, without opening the locker, to detect such items,” Richard Bramlitt, a retired Clay County sheriff’s deputy who worked with the department for 27 years, said…