Alabama School District to Hire Specialized Security Officers
Huntsville City Schools in Alabama will spend roughly $280,500 for more campus security officers to supervise transfer students.
Huntsville City Schools needs the added school security to monitor transfer students as they wait for buses outside of school hours.
A city school district in Alabama will hire 15 campus security officers to work before and after school every day.
Huntsville City Schools will spend around $280,500 for additional officers to improve school security as part of a transfer student supervision plan, according to al.com.
Currently the district doesn’t have enough campus security officers to monitor every campus, a problem exacerbated by the student traffic that happens before and after school days as part of a transfer program. The school board will approve the new expenditures through its annual budget process.
The magnet school and Majority-to Minority city transfer programs have students arriving at their zone’s school around 7 a.m. and staying on campus until 4 p.m. to wait for buses. Unarmed officers will work weekdays from 6:45 to 8:45 a.m. and 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. to prevent unauthorized youths from loitering before and after school. The officers will have two-way radios and remote access to student IDs to verify student identities.
The wages, with new officers set to earn $15 an hour, will cost an additional $236,340. Motorola 1500 XTS radios will cost $18,000 and uniforms will be $5,040.
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