Henrico County’s Three Chopt District Supervisor Misty Whitehead was met with complicated feelings when she watched her 10-year-old son get on the bus to school the morning after a deadly school shooting at a Georgia high school. “I know we’re all parents of Henrico County students, and it’
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A taser and pepper spray were confiscated at J.R. Tucker High School and two tasers were confiscated at Highland Springs High School in four separate incidents after being detected by weapons scanners. Other than these four incidents, no other weapons have been detected by school weapons scanners, according to
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It’s a little past 8:30 a.m. on a Tuesday, and the line of students outside Mills E. Godwin High School is beginning to grow exponentially, wrapping around the side of the building, with hundreds of students waiting to pass through the new weapons detection scanners placed at
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All Henrico County Public Schools will soon have weapon detection scanners as an added security mechanism, with some schools projected to have the scanners installed by the start of the 2023-2024 school year. Following months-long field testing using metal detectors, wands, and weapons scanners at a variety of schools, as
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