Rutherford County Sheriff Robert Arnold held a press conference on Tuesday to discuss the hiring of new deputies to oversee our local schools. The Rutherford County Commission has asked the Sheriff’s Department to configure the costs of adding new School Resource Officers so that every county school would be staffed by a deputy. There are currently not enough school resource officers to oversee each school. WGNS’ Bart Walker covered the story…

Reports indicate it will cost over $1-million to add the 11-needed officers.