Sheriff Randall Cunningham was the first sheriff to ever rush for over 1,000 yards and pass for over 3,000 yards in a single season. Sheriff Cunningham was a four-time Pro-Bowl selection.

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This was in the AJC.

School's weapons incident reviewed

By BRIDGET GUTIERREZ
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 08/24/06

Fayette County Public Schools officials are reviewing how staff members handled the investigation of a student who police say brought a car loaded with rifles, handguns and nearly 200 rounds of ammunition to campus on the first day of school.

In an interview last week, Superintendent John D. DeCotis said administrators were examining how officials at Whitewater High School responded to the tip — received during the summer — that two students might bring weapons to the Fayetteville school.

DeCotis said his staff would look at "the sequence of events" to determine whether the suspected students were properly monitored before they were taken out of class for questioning; whether he should have been notified of the potential crisis before police seized the weapons and arrested one of the students; and whether proper safety procedures were followed.
"It took me several days myself to find out what I understand the sequence of events to be," DeCotis said. "I still don't know if I have a total handle on it."

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has found some discrepancies in administrators' accounts of what occurred the day Fayette County sheriff's deputies carted away Robin Kittrell, who remains in jail on nine weapons violations, including six felonies.

When asked about the tip the day after the arrest, for example, Whitewater principal Greg Stillions said he was notified by a central office administrator that the 17-year-old senior might have "knives and guns."

Later, that administrator, through a spokeswoman, said the tipster mentioned two students as possibly having knives, but not guns. Both were questioned and searched on the first day of school, she said, and one was cleared.
Also, when asked why Kittrell was allowed to enter the school building when he knew the student might have a weapon, Stillions said Kittrell had no record of disciplinary offenses and noted how difficult it would have been to locate him among 1,700 other teenagers.

"Trying to seek someone out in the middle of a crowd where there are people that can create emotions ... was not what we were looking for," he said.
Later, system spokeswoman Melinda Berry-Dreisbach said an assistant principal actually was watching Kittrell from the moment he drove onto campus — something Stillions never mentioned — until the teen reached his first class.
Stillions did not return repeated phone calls for clarification.

Few parents seem to be concerned about how the incident was handled. County Board of Education chairwoman Terri Smith, whose daughter attends Whitewater, said she hasn't received a single call.

"I don't want to armchair quarterback," she said. "But from what I hear, they handled it correctly."
Despite the system's internal review, which DeCotis said was routine, a formal report will not be issued. He said changes would be made to Whitewater's safety plan, if needed.

"Thank God, nobody got hurt, physically — nobody got shot," he said. "Thank God, nobody was threatened — that we know of.
"We're just thankful for that."

The AJC seemed more concerned that most here. Pity.

I posted this before.

This “TIP” leaves a LOT to be desired!
When did the TIP come in?
Where did the TIP come from?
Who received this TIP?
How was the TIP received?
What exactly was the TIP?
Who was notified about the TIP?
When were they notified about the TIP

While we’re at it, the ‘Why’ part of the TIP should be answered as well?

Was the kid being surveilled prior to school restarted?
If the case was in the back seat of the car, as stated, did anyone bother to look in the car while it was on school property during band practice?

I fully understand that local law enforcement has barely had time to get answers to these and a few hundred other questions.
Other than the kid did something unbelievably stupid and illegal I don’t yet see ‘Columbine II’ in the making here.

I truly pray that the outcome of all of this will not be ‘Columbine II’ in the making.

We simply DON’T have enough facts yet to arrive at any kind of conclusion.

Another sad thought is that we may never have an answer to these and several other questions.

At this point in time I’m just grateful that all but one of the students came home from school that day unharmed.

P.S. Why the reference to Randall Cunningham ? Even in his prime, Randall was never as fast as Randall Cunningham.

How embarassing...I always want to call Randall Johnson "Randy Johnson", after the Big Unit MLB Pitcher. So I'm typing away, thinking to myself "Don't type Randy Johnson" and what do I do? Type "Randall Cunningham".

*rolling eyes*

I thought you were gonna do something about me? Call your buddies and give 'em my name and address and phone number and stuff?

It's been, what, two weeks now?

Big talker, aren't ya?

They have your name

You are right, I obviously don't have any idea what the job of a School Resource Officer is. I mistakenly believed that, at a minimum, they could use the awesome power conferred upon them by the state of Georgia (the same power that lets them go on drug busts in Gwinnett County) to investigate allegations of assault (bullying) on Fayette County public school grounds.

If what you are saying is true, and you appear to be an honest if somewhat inarticulate man, that a deputy sheriff/school resource officer is limited in his (or her) actions solely because they are on school grounds, than I submit to you that these SROs are little more than glorified messenger boys (or girls) that carry messages from students to school administrators.

If that is truly the case, that they are little more than "window dressing" on school property to provide the illusion of police protection, then that's a travesty and a waste of taxpayer dollars.

P.S. As far as Pope's title, he was referred to as Detective Pope in the Kittrell article. Take it up with John Munford.

I still have the score on the Sheriff's copter as 0 to 4. The perps are ahead at this point.
Maybe when the PTCPD gets its drug squad up and running they can use the money forfeited from the kids to buy their own copter to patrol the cart path.

Too expensive, especially at night with the big search lights shining. Would seem that the UN black hallocoopoterrs would be after us. I suggest that we build watch towers, like the old fire towers, manned or womaned, day and night by the cops who screwed up the most last month! They could have a porta-potty, a george foreman, and a gas refrigerator in the tower. They could have one of those blasters, like the riverdale guys have in their low riders, on the tower. That would scare the h... out of perps. Infra-red photography wouild gether the evi-dense. Beats any plan I have heard!