The Culver School Board finalized a policy for the use of metal detectors Monday. Superintendent Karen Shuman says the three handheld metal detectors the school corporation received from the state will simply be another tool for administrators to use for a potential search.
“It is not to be used as every student comes in the building,” she told board members. “It is if the administrators have knowledge of a potential need for the search, and it’s giving them permission to use the metal detector within that search. And then it’s also if there was an alert of something and we needed to scan a larger group, the parameters in scanning that larger group by sending out notifications to everyone that we are going to do a larger-scale search.”
Shuman added that school officials around the state are still trying to figure out how to adopt policies to go along with the new metal detectors. “Every time I go to a meeting, there is new dialogue about the use of the metal detectors, so I also see there’s potential amendments, even as we’ve adopted this. But we cannot use until we have a policy in place.”
This summer, Governor Eric Holcomb launched a program to give schools one handheld metal detector for every 250 students, free of charge.
