It's video that people are talking about all across the country. A gunman opens fire on a school board meeting in Panama City, Florida. Clay Duke, and ex-convict, who was upset about his wife being fired at a Florida school, wreacked havoc in an act of protest that ultimately ended his life. The Florida shooting and hostage situation now has APS school board members and school officials questioning their own security measures. "I don't want to see an old-fashioned gunfight in a school board meeting," says board member Robert Lucero. "especially budget concerns and if we have to do layoffs, what that's going to do to people's emotions and everything else, so we just have to be aware of it." But APS school board president Marty Esquivel thinks the Florida shooting was an isolated incident. "do I see a need to increase security at the school board meetings?" He questioned. "we might be more mindful tonight in light of what happened, but in the long term, I think we just need to keep doing what we're doing and remind people to be civil to their public servants." Clearly the Florida incident had an effect on the APS board meeting Wednesday night. Officers stood watch closer to the podium than usual. APS Chief Operations Officer Brad Winter says Superintendent Winston Brooks held a meeting Wednesday morning to talk about school board security, and some big changes could be on the way, including more officers at the meetings. "we think presence of our APS police officers, uniformed officers is something that we're doing immediately," he says. "we're also doing some more things that we can't comment on right now but we are working on." Winter says they're considering everything from pat-downs to metal detectors. School board members we talked with Wednesday night do not support that, saying it might be going overboard.
