Highland Park High parents say students are evading weapons detection systems, call for enhanced security measures

Highland Park High School students were greeted by new weapons detection systems and extra security on the first day of classes in response to the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old student. Parents say students are evading the detectors. (Joe Lewnard/Daily Herald.)

After the tragic gun death of a 16-year-old boy in Highland Park, local parents are pushing for Township High School District 113 to implement stricter security measures at both of its schools.

District leaders installed a weapons detection system at one entrance of both Deerfield and Highland Park High Schools, which Parents SOS, a group led by Suzanne Wahl and Enrique Perez, said was “ineffective.” Now, the group is asking the school district to install weapons detection systems at every entrance at both schools for every hour of every day.