School Board Taking up Security

The Charleston County school leaders will talk school security at Wednesday meeting.

The workshop comes just shy of a month after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. School board members have allotted roughly an hour to hear from school system director of security Jeff Scott.

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The City of North Charleston has ordered police officers into 21 elementary and middle schools following the shooting. Across the county, armed police security is standard at high schools, but is not in place at elementary and middle schools.

That move has been controversial. A group is protesting the added police, citing concerns that added police presence at high-minority schools may unfairly target a specific ethnicity.

Today's meeting starts at 1 p.m. School board members expect to take up the security issue at 4:15 p.m. There will be no recorded votes at today's workshop.