{"id":1296124,"date":"2024-02-08T08:33:54","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T14:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1296124"},"modified":"2024-02-11T02:28:21","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T08:28:21","slug":"local-school-district-receives-security-grant-for-campus-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1296124","title":{"rendered":"Bullard ISD receives security grant for campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1296125\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/02\/BullardISDLogo_1490786768037_19047930_ver1.0_640_360-175x98.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"98\" \/>BULLARD &#8212; Bullard ISD earned a $950,000 security grant from the Texas Education Agency to be put toward keeping students and staff safe. According to our news partner KETK, Bullard ISD said the funds will be used to add more fencing, replace old doors and to update surveillance cameras to be equipped with facial recognition software in all of their facilities. Due to the new school and safety law passed in Austin, districts now have to meet stiffer security requirements, including the mandate that requires all campuses to have at least one armed guard. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re here to keep the students and the staff safe, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s our primary job here,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Chief of Police for Bullard ISD Pat Hendrix said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We are a police department but our main job, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not here to police the students or the faculty, we are here to protect them.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BULLARD &#8212; Bullard ISD earned a $950,000 security grant from the Texas Education Agency to be put toward keeping students and staff safe. According to our news partner KETK, Bullard ISD said the funds will be used to add more fencing, replace old doors and to update surveillance cameras to be equipped with facial recognition &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1296124\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bullard ISD receives security grant for campus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1296126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/02\/BullardISDLogo_1490786768037_19047930_ver1.0_640_360-175x98.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Local school district receives security grant for campus safety","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1296124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 05:34:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/02\/BullardISDLogo_1490786768037_19047930_ver1.0_640_360-175x98.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Local school district receives security grant for campus safety","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1296124"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1296176,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296124\/revisions\/1296176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1296126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1296124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1296124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1296124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}