our scott mcfarlane discovered there are questions about whether some school districts are coming up short in how th're protecting students. >> 911, what is your emergency? >> someone is shooting up the school. >> it's the e-mail no parent ever wants to receive. >> i was in panic. >> cindy read the alert, a student found with a gun inside her son's school, clarksburg high. >> my youngest son was very afraid, especially becausehe student had classes with himon >> just day after the february tragedy at parkland high in lorida, after getting a tip the school resource officer found the gun and helped arrest 18-year-old alvin chen who later pleaded guilty a firearms charge. she says this is why schools eed a police officer on the beat. >> you want to feel t in a safe environment. >> officers have the most challenging job in all of law enforcement. >> reporter: don bridges is past president of the national association of schoo resource officers, which recommends every school has an sr and one officer for every 1,000 students. bridges says that contributes to one-on-one relationships with t

. >> scott mcfarlane continues our coverage with how a major facility like the one in montgomery county htr been ng to reduce the risk of these things happening. scott. >> good morning, aaron. in july the director of the montgomery county department of corrections told the if an inmate is intent on harming himself or her self, it akes just a brief moment or second to doit. using public records requests, they have responded to 100 suicide attempts in the larger jail and the smaller detention center they have. two of those attempts resulted in thees deaths of inmone earlier this summer and of course this morning. in july the county granted rare aco the clarksburg jail to the i-team and correctional officers there say they have made several recent rescues, including one in which an officer stepped beneath caught a man who attempted to leap to his death from a high railing inside the countyja . they use a sategy called direct supervision to monitor inmates, to reduce the risk of suicides. that means officers rarel sit down. they continually patrol the holding cells and keep watch of the ton