SPOKANE COUNTY, Wash. - In less than a week, students will return to Seth Woodard Elementary for the new school year, but West Valley School District's safety team is already at work preparing for their arrival.

"We don't just start the day when the school day starts, we do a proactive patrol first thing in the morning," said Bobby Loweree, Safety and Security Director for the district. His team consists of a resource officer and an armed resource deputy.

"We have had instances where we had to rely on that," Loweree said. The West Valley School District's Resource Deputy is centrally located at West Valley High School. "

The district has implemented new safety features this year for West Valley High School. Its front doors are now treated with ballistic treatment, making it much harder

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