BERKS COUNTY, Pa. – Some high school football games for fans in Berks will take on a different atmosphere this week when it comes to safety.<\/p>\n
“This is standard procedure when you attend college or a professional sporting event or a concert; this is normalcy now in our world,” said District Attorney John Adams.<\/p>\n
As the high school football season continues for Reading High and Governor Mifflin, both school districts are addressing security concerns and issues in statements to the community.<\/p>\n
A community meeting will be held at the Governor Mifflin Intermediate School cafeteria on Thursday night to hear parents\u2019 concerns.<\/p>\n
“I think it’s time, and I think the school districts are being proactive, and I think it’s appropriate,” said Adams.<\/p>\n
Both Governor Mifflin and Reading High say increased security and safety measures are going into place for this week’s games, including increased staffing, screening, and checking bags at entrances.<\/p>\n
This comes after two separate incidents, including last Friday, when there were claims of someone having a gun at the Governor Mifflin game, leading to the game being halted in the third quarter.<\/p>\n
Then, this past Tuesday, two Reading students were found with knives and an airsoft gun on Governor Mifflin school grounds.<\/p>\n
“One of the things we have at high school athletic events is young teens. Sometimes kids don’t think,” said Adams.<\/p>\n
“They act before they think. Their brains are not formed like adults\u2019. They do things that are stupid,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERKS COUNTY, Pa. – Some high school football games for fans in Berks will take on a different…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[116866,349,32148,624,62748,304,128,130,129,116863,116864,115985,116865],"class_list":["post-279218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-bag-checks","tag-berks-county","tag-community-meeting","tag-district-attorney","tag-governor-mifflin","tag-high-school-football","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-high","tag-safety-measures","tag-school-security","tag-weapons-at-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}