Southern California schools worked May 25 with local law enforcement to increase campus security a day after an 18-year-old killed 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Texas.
Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes said shortly after the shooting—the second deadliest school shooting in the nation’s history—he would immediately increase deputies at schools in his jurisdiction for the following day, in addition to school police officers.
“No parent should ever have to wonder if their child is safe at school,” Barnes said in his statement. “We extend condolences and prayers to the grieving community of Uvalde.”
Ian Hanigan, a spokesman for the Orange County Department of Education, told The Epoch Times in an email that the department is “[working] closely with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department and other local law enforcement agencies to analyze everything from cyberbullying to securing school facilities.”…