Building Monitors Enhance Princeton High School Security: Report

PRINCETON, NJ — The Princeton Public School District has reportedly enhanced its security measures with the hiring of former police officers, security guards and firefighters to watch over the high school.

The four “building monitors” are working on part time contracts for the duration of the school year, and are making $22,000 a piece, according to the Princeton Packet. They are positioned at the tower entrance at the front of the high school, and the performing arts center in the back.

The decision came from a security audit of the district back in January, and in the wake of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in February. Late last year, it was revealed the school district would enter into a Memorandum of Understanding to allow the police department greater access to its security cameras.

School security and student safety has been at the forefront of the national discussion since the Florida shootings. Over 3,000 students at Princeton High School participated in the national walkout day event on March 14, and a Princeton High School student organized the local March for Our Lives event, in which over 1,000 people came together to call for a gun control bill targeted at ending school shootings in Princeton. Marches were held across the country.

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