Meeting addresses questions about guns in Gainesville schools | GainesvilleTimes.com

Parents and teachers from three Gainesville schools met with city police Monday about a proposal to place rifles in the hands of school resource officers.

“I was on the school governance council when it first came up just as a memorandum for us to approve,” said Ashley Bell, chairman of the Gainesville High governance council. “I think it’s appropriate that they had this meeting today because there were some questions initially.”

The group meeting was set for governance council members from Gainesville High, Gainesville Middle and Wood’s Mill Academy to ask questions of the police department. The majority of the 15 attendees were teachers, not including the council chairs.

Under the plan, a Colt 6920 M4 carbine would be placed inside a safe in the three schools. Currently, the school resource officer would be the only one to have access to the rifle.

The safe would only be able to be opened by fingerprint recognition, Lt. Jay Parrish said.

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