Students, Staff Speak in School Paper About Drug-Sniffing K-9 Initiative

Two Naugauck High School students have written a story for the NHS Greyhound, the journalism class’ student newspaper, about the i onto school grounds.

The article, which is viewable here, incorporates much of the information that was told during a Board of Education meeting last Thursday, including the types of drugs the dogs can detect, the fact that other schools in the region are employing similar tactics and assertions by Principal Janice Saam that only property, and not students, will be subjected to searches.

But the article, written by Evelyn Rinadli and Justin Rinaldi, also quotes some students and faculty, offering their take on the idea.

“I think it’s good,” junior Nick Grosso told the student newspaper. “There’s a bunch of people who bring drugs into the school and sell them. If you’re going to do that, why waste your time in school?”

For more information, visit the NHS Greyhound’s website.

Saam has said the will start bringing police dogs onto NHS grounds next year, as a way to send a message to students that drugs aren’t allowed. The dogs will sniff the exterior of the school’s lockers, and any locker that turns up a drug scent will be marked off.

Police , however, and any decision on such a search will be made by the school administration.