Ohio Schools Can’t Use Barricades To Keep Gunmen Out

Erin West, the mother of a Pataskala 7-year-old, said she is sickened by the thought of more than 300 donated door-security barricades remaining boxed up inside the five buildings of the Southwest Licking school district. Less than a month after a parents group donated the cost of the barricades to the school board, the district received word that their use violates Ohio’s Building Code, which says it must be possible to open doors from the inside “without use of a key or any special knowledge or effort.”