Columbus Dispatch

Columbus City Schools to use metal detector wands in high schools

Columbus City Schools has announced it will be implementing metal detector wands in the district's high schools starting next week. In a letter to families Wednesday night, Superintendent Talisa Dixon ...
WKRN-TV

Austin-East students to be screened by metal detector wands upon return to in-person class

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — A spokesperson with Knox County Schools reports Austin-East Magnet High School students will be screened by metal detector wands upon return to in-person instruction. READ: ...
Wane

‘Impractical, expensive and don’t work’: Metal detectors not a solution to guns in schools, officials say

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – A Noblesville school shooting in 2018 sparked the Indiana Department of Administration to dole out more than 3,400 metal detector wands to school districts all over the state ...
Sterling Journal-Advocate

RE-1 Valley considering using metal detector wands to deter student vaping

RE-1 Valley School District officials are sounding an alarm about an increasing number of students who are trying vaping. It has become such a problem that the district is considering the purchase of ...
WATE 6 On Your Side

Austin-East students to be screened by metal detector wands upon return to in-person class; other security measures added

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — A spokesperson with Knox County Schools confirmed Monday that Austin-East Magnet High School students will be screened by metal detector wands upon their return to in-person ...