Gov. Scott discusses school security

LONGWOOD, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) - Speaking at a campaign stop at Metal Essence, a local manufacturing business, Governor Rick Scott said the state's given counties everything they can to keep students safe.

“I think it's very important that all our schools have school resource officers, it's important that the dollars we've spent to harden our schools are spent well,” Scott said, “I think it's very important we have mental health counselors. All those things are going to make our schools safer.”

Florida legislators saying the mayor and sheriff need to put aside petty politics, and agree on whether there are enough school resource officers in Orange County and how to station them.

“There is no justification for what's going on,” said Sen. Victor Torres, (D) Orange County, “it's just political theater and we don't need it.”

“I would think that any politician, regardless of party, an election, their personal animus toward anyone else, would sit down and solve the problem, because that's what we're elected to do,” said Rep. Bobby Olszewski, (R) Dist. 44.

The Florida State Department of Education said that "this decision is determined locally, as districts know best what they need to keep their students safe."

Governor Scott echoed that. “We give a lot of authority to our school districts around the state on how they allocate those dollars. But it's their responsibility to provide those law enforcement officers.”

One group that hasn't talked about this squabble was the school district. They only released a statement today assuring that every school in the district has been assigned a law enforcement officer for this school year.