Souhegan High To Get Security Upgrade

Your local high school will be safer with the addition of security cameras, increased lighting and a new exterior locking system.

The Souhegan Cooperative School Board voted last week to use pension savings toward these security enhancements.

The upgrade includes two security cameras in the rear parking lots near the school and one watching over the parking in the front. Four lights will be put in a row across the rear parking to better light that area of parking.

A new locking system has also been added to exterior doors of the high school.

The added security is in response to over the years, most of them going unsolved.

Director of Buildings and Grounds Jim Miner presented his estimates to the board at their meeting last week, with the total cost of the security additions to use most of the approximately $150,000 saved from pensions.

Other Amherst schools have similar security cameras installed that act as deterrents to criminal activity.

Souhegan High School’s Student Resource Officer said the images can be zoomed in to recognize faces and license plates on the footage.

Miner said that the security cameras will be installed as soon as possible, with the lighting additions put in as soon as weather permits, since trenching is required.