Impact Check: Examining Florida’s controversial school guardian program

It’s a controversial school safety measure born out of tragedy.

But five years after armed school guardians became part of Florida’s school security landscape, we wanted to know, is it working?

“Absolutely,” said Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, who implemented a guardian in his county a few years before the Parkland shooting.

His program, he said, became the basis for the state’s guardian program.