BROCKTON — Fights between students at Brockton High School are “on the decline” and a state-funded security and safety audit is underway at Davis, Brockton High School Police Officer Jason Mosley said Tuesday night. told.
Mosley said at Tuesday's Brockton School Committee meeting that a team conducting a district-wide safety audit will spend all day March 12 at Edgar B. Davis School to examine building safety and security conditions. He said he was on the ground.
Meanwhile, violence in BHS hallways has decreased, as teachers and faculty reported at school committee meetings as of November.
“The fighting is still going on, but it appears to be decreasing,” Mosley said. “We continue to investigate each incident and determine whether charges should be filed.”
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Mosley updated the School Committee on the high school's various efforts to curb security and safety issues after the committee resolved to include regular security updates on the agenda of all future meetings. I passed on the information.
Brockton High School Principal Kevin McCaskill said during Tuesday's meeting that 12 of the school's security and safety professionals completed training led by Brockton High School's police officers last week. Brockton Police Chief Brenda Perez said the school's security professionals have traditionally lacked adequate resources and training to keep the building safe.
Brockton Public Schools Interim Superintendent James Cobbs said the district plans to double its security and safety staff to 24 by the beginning of next school year. The district will also consider hiring a security officer as well as a full-time faculty member to actively monitor all cameras in the building.
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Cobbs said most teachers don't have access to keys and classrooms throughout the building are unlocked, so teachers' school and personal property is sometimes damaged or stolen from empty classrooms. In response to the report, Brockton High School said it is working to replace the locks on 1,400 classroom doors.
Cobbs said Brockton High School plans to update all student ID card photos at the beginning of each school year, since most students' current ID photos are from eighth grade.th School year.
“We plan to update these photos annually,” Cobbs said at Tuesday's meeting.
