Sedalia 200 district officials continue to make changes and enhancements in efforts to improve safety at all schools.
Assistant Superintendent Brad Pollitt said it has been “kind of a slow process,” but video monitoring systems to go along with “buzz-in” door lock mechanisms should be installed by Nightwatch Security, of Sedalia, by the middle of February at the district’s five elementary schools, the preschool cooperative and the middle school.
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