Security, Safety Measures Increased, Officials Say

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Ferguson-Florissant school officials say they're doing their best to ensure students are safe, following the death last month of Christine Smetzer.

"The district has always made safety and security a prime responsibility," Superintendent C. Robert Fritz said last week.

Smetzer, 15, was found beaten to death on Jan. 24 in a bathroom at McCluer North High School. Her alleged killer, also a 15-year-old freshman, was a Special School District student with behavior problems who had transferred to the school the day before the murder.

In response to concerns of district parents, Fritz announced that the district has instituted several new safety …