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With the Parkland shooting and other recent school shootings on their minds, members of the Palm Beach County School Board are discussing school safety.
While locking classroom doors when school is in session is common practice, it is not a written policy. School Board Chairman Frank Barbieri tells CBS 12 News that it should be.
"I certainly want to make sure that everybody understands that leaving a classroom door unlocked when there are children on the other side of that classroom door is a serious violation of the security protocols that we have in this district and now it's in policies."
On Wednesday evening, the night before a jury would recommend life in prison without the possibility of parole for Nikolas Cruz, the School Board reviewed the new proposed policy, which would call for disciplinary action against any teacher or other school employee who violates it. It will be voted on at a later date.
The School Board meets again next October 19.
There were reports over the summer that an unknown number of classroom doors did not lock because they were being used as fire exits, but the school district says it has since addressed the issue.