Parents and EVSC grapple with question of urgency on weapons in schools

EVANSVILLE — Three known safety-related incidents in schools in less than three months. With that start to the school year, EVSC announced a plan Monday — not for weapons detections systems, but for a safety audit.

That set up a debate over the virtues of moving decisively now — to install weapons detection systems in schools — versus the benefit of first having complete and accurate information about what is already in place.