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WINDER, Ga. (AP) — Officials in the Georgia school district where four people were killed in a September shooting atare considering a property tax increase to pay for school-based police officers.
Barrow County Superintendent Dallas LeDuff told school board members Tuesday that the tax increase would be necessary because county government has informed the school district that it will no longer pay for sheriff’s deputies, local news outlets reported.The school district and Barrow County Commission have been splitting the price of deputies assigned as school resource officers since 2017. That number was originally 12, rose to 16 in 2024, and then to 24 after the shooting. That would place at least two officers in the district’s high schools and at least one officer in every other school, although officials haven’t yet been able to hire 24 deputies.County commissioners sent a letter to LeDuff last month saying county government will for now pay half only 12 salaries, and eventually stop paying any of the costs.
“What they would like to see happen is that we as a school system be responsible for funding 100% of all direct and indirect costs for all 24 officers that we are staffing now, along with future officers we might add,” LeDuff said.The superintendent said the district will cover whatever the officers cost, calling it ”nonnegotiable.” The district has been
since the shooting to improve security, agreeing to install weapons detectors at its high schools and middle schools this year after months of community outcry.
“Especially in light of Sept. 4, I am deeply concerned with the Board of Commissioners’ underlying notion that 2,000-plus Barrow County school system employees and over 15,000 Barrow County students are no longer included in their definition of public safety,” Barrow County school board member Kayla Hendrix said. “Perhaps we need to ask the county commissioners who qualifies under their definition of public safety.”He was later taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and was being transported to a detention facility in Arizona, she said in an email to The Associated Press.
The Trump administration said in court filings last month that it was working to bring him back after he was deported to Mexico, despite his fears of being harmed there, days after athe administration to facilitate his return.
The U.S. Department of Justice didn’t immediately respond to a request for comments and details from the AP.The man, who is gay, was protected from being returned to his home country under a U.S. immigration judge’s order at the time. But the U.S. put him on a bus and sent him to Mexico instead, a removal that U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy found likely “lacked any semblance of due process.”