Franklin County Schools Setting up Security Teams with Armed Volunteers
Officials in northwest Alabama are getting ready to announce a one-of-a-kind school security program where security volunteers are armed.
Democratic state Rep. Johnny Mack Morrow passed legislation in 2013 to allow Franklin County to set up its own school security system using volunteers who have undergone training. The bill passed despite objections from the governor. Morrow says the Protection Institute from Charleston, South Carolina, is helping develop the program. He says Franklin County plan will be the only one of its type in the state.