After the fatal shooting of a Salem high schooler last March — and rising concerns of gun violence in schools across the country today — Salem-Keizer Public Schools leaders say they need another layer of prevention to protect students.
Plans to detect weapons at multiple school sites across Oregon’s second-largest school district, which enrolls more than 40,000 students, is the biggest such step in the state, possibly the region. The decision comes as multiple school districts are wrestling with safety and security concerns.
Just this week, the handling of security threats at Gresham High School forced the principal there to resign, and in Bend, a 12-year-old student was arrested for bringing a loaded gun to their middle school…