In what would be a dramatic turnaround for the Clay County School District, they may decide to disband the district’s police department. If they do, it would turn security back over to the Clay County Sheriff’s Office.
Following the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in South Florida, all districts were mandated to have security at each school. In Clay County, there was a public fight about how to make that happen.the Clay County School District made it very well known they had started a new police force.
Beth Clark is a board member who supports the move. Clark says that there is still the same expense to the Sheriff’s Office as there is with paying for a police force. Therefore, the tax hike is not wasted money. She says everything would be moved over and there should be no additional cost to the taxpayers. Clark noted what happened in Duval County when the school board police was found to be underreporting crimes on campus by a grand jury. She says she doesn’t want Clay in that same position where the school board had to manage how police do their job. She says Sheriff Cook said her agency is willing to step in and take over if that’s what the school board approves.
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