A “secure environment for everyone” that’s what the School District of Indian River County said is the goal behind the pilot program placing metal detectors at Vero Beach High School . The district partnered with the Indian River County Sheriff’s Office for the initiative.
“We went in half. We spent about $30,000, the school district spent about $30,000,” Sheriff Eric Flowers said. “We purchased several of these products.”
Flowers said they’ve been using the metal detectors since the latter part of the football season. After Monday’s incident of a student with a gun at Vero Beach High School, Superintendent Davis Moore called Flowers. He said their conversations led to putting the plan for metal detectors in place.
WPTV“Our team put together a plan and this morning we deployed those portable metal detectors at entrances of Vero Beach High School,” Flowers said, “and what I’ve been told everything went rather smoothly.”