By W. Winston Skinner
Times-Herald
COWETA COUNTY, Ga. — The Coweta County Board of Commissioners has approved a new policy regarding the use of inmate labor at the county’s public schools.
Inmates have done a variety of jobs at the schools for decades — saving money to the school system and providing an avenue of work for the inmates and income to the county. After complaints several months ago when an inmate exposed himself outdoors at a school — he was observed by a student in a classroom — the longstanding practice was revisited by the county commission and the Coweta County Board of Education.
The county commission unanimously approved the new policy on Tuesday. Assistant County Administrator Michael Fouts told the commission that there had been some changes made to the initial proposal.
Specifically addressed was the circumstance in which students come into an area where inmates are working. “If students approach the area where the inmate detail is located, the inmate detail would vacate,” Fouts said.
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