Elementary school students across the region will find tighter security this fall, ranging from new surveillance cameras to locked doors, as school districts rethink the safety of their youngest students, following the shootings in Newtown, Conn.
Related Gallery: Top 10 school districts for enrollment increases Of 20 school districts surveyed in Greater Boston, 19 have added new security equipment, procedures, or both, since a gunman entered Sandy Hook Elementary School and killed 20 students and six educators. In Salem, all schools are getting panic buttons, so staff will have a direct line to police in case of emergency; in Walpole, all elementary schools will get six security cameras each; and in Groton-Dunstable, staff will be trained in a wider array of responses in case a gunman enters a school. Full story for BostonGlobe.com subscribers. Lisa Kocian can be reached at [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter @GlobeLisaKocian. © Copyright 2013 Globe Newspaper Company. Get the full story with unlimited access to BostonGlobe.com. Just 99¢ for 4 weeks. TOP COMMENTS View all comments (3) » | Comment on this story » moosez0r1337 08/18/2013 04:32 AM Security cameras!!! So safe!!! Yay! Oh if only we could enact a gun free zone restriction! Oh wait we tried and it has proves time and time again to be counter intuitive mrnemo 08/18/2013 08:12 AM It's all a waste if someone in the school is not armed, trained and ready. Preferably, There would be a substantial amount of firepower in every school. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "massfire" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/massfire. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
