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Danbury sets up school safety task force

A task force is being created in Danbury to review school security.  The group will include the chiefs of fire and police, the Mayor, some parents, and school officials among others.  There are 17 schools in the district that will have to be looked at and evaluated.  Danbury School Finance Director Joseph Martino says the last big security overhaul was in 2006, in response to the shootings at Columbine High School.

 

Martino says security reviews have already started.

 

One of the major pieces of work will be to see what changes should be made at the King Street School.  Concerned parents spoke out at a Board of Education workshop this month that the open floor plan makes their kids sitting ducks if an intruder came in to the building.

 

At the workshop Mayor Mark boughton estimated that it would cost $100,000 a year per police officer if they were to be in the schools each day all day.

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