Those attending TUSD Governing Board meetings will now have to walk through a full-body metal detector.
The security tool was revealed Tuesday night — a week after protesters took over a meeting and deployed a smoke bomb.
According to Jeff Coleman, TUSD’s director of school safety, the $2,800-metal detector was ordered more than a month ago.
Coleman called it a “more effective method of searching people overall” than the metal detector wands that have been in use for the last year.
“When you go into a public meeting where they are screening people, this is what they have at the courthouse or at the Board of Supervisors,” Coleman said.
The equipment will also be used for other special district events, he said.
TUSD is working with Tucson police to identify the person responsible for the smoke bomb in the board room. The investigation is ongoing, Coleman said.
