JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The director of the Duval County School Police Department expressed confidence in the new school safety assistant program, which will hire and train 107 new employees who will be armed at elementary schools beginning next school year. (news4jax.com)
Duval County school leaders have already approved plans to hire armed safety assistants, who are not sworn officers, but are school employees. (news4jax.com)
The school safety assistant program will put an armed employee at each of Duval County's 107 elementary and alternative schools so that the district is in compliance with the new state law passed after the Parkland school shooting. (news4jax.com)