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Athens To Consider SRO Question This Week
Posted on January 14, 2013
Since the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14th, law officers and school officials in Athens and Limestone County have been looking at ways to make schools safer.
In response, Limestone County officials are planning to add school resource officers to six elementary schools and Athens City Schools administrators are considering adding police presence for the first time.
Sheriff Mike Blakely said prevention is key in making children safer.
County school and law enforcement officials will discuss a plan to place officers in elementary schools at a January 17th work session in the Central Office on Jefferson Street. School resource officers are already present during school hours at each of Limestone County's six high schools.
Tom Sisk, superintendent of Limestone County Schools, is determined to have trained officers present on each of the county campuses but he doesn't have funding to cover the cost of placing full-time school resource officers at 13 schools a total of about $1 million per year.
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