Students Texting Cops in Marietta Schools
By Chris Camp
October 22, 2008 (WSB Radio) -- The Marietta School Board has unanimously approved a new safety plan for Marietta High School that allows the 1,900 students to text message a school resource officer about rumored or actual trouble on campus.
School board spokesman Preston Howard tells Channel 2 Action News "students sometimes have knowledge that we (the school board) don't have and anytime we can promote the use of positive tools like this, I think it will be an enhancement to our safety program."
Students will be provided a six digit number they can text 24 hours a day, seven days a week. That number connects them with MobileStorm, a California company that will monitor the texts and alert police when needed.
Marietta High principal Leigh Colburn tells the Atlanta Journal-Constitution "Marietta wants to out front of school safety. Currently two police officers and a K-9 unit are assigned to Marietta High.
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