NCHS students: Lockdown ‘drill’ was a search for illegal drugs

By JIM BROOKS
Nelson County Gazette

Friday, March 4, 2011, 6 p.m. — What was called a lockdown “exercise” is being called a lockdown and search for drugs by the students who attend Nelson County High School.

Multiple postings by students on the Facebook website indicate that students saw drug dogs and police canvassing the school while the lockdown was underway Friday morning. All of the students believed the lockdown was real and not a drill.

Students at the school sent text messages during the lockdown to family members, prompting calls to the school’s office. Parents who called the office Friday morning were told the lockdown was an exercise.  The Kentucky Center for School Safety website says every school is required to conduct a lockdown annually.

Two deputy sheriff’s reported they were leaving the school sometime between 10:30 and 11 Friday morning, though there was no indication of their role — if any — during the lockdown at the high school.

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