SRO pill drop prohibited

Due to concerns involving security and liability, the LHS student resource officer can no longer accept prescription pills at LHS for secure disposal.
   “There was no locked and secure transfer for the drugs” from LHS to the Lewiston Police Department (LPD), said Budd Hurd, lieutenant of investigation, “therefore it was a safety risk for our officers.”
  Instead, Robert Massey, SRO at LHS, asks community members to take them to the drop box located at the LPD.
  The LPD cannot accept needles or liquids in such drop boxes, Massey added. If someone comes into contact with liquids or needles that need to be disposed of, these should be taken directly to the LPD personnel, or the Nez Perce County health department.
   “I will have a secure drop box at the LHS parent-teacher conference in November, so you are more than welcome to bring your drugs at that time and dispose of them,” Massey wrote in an email to LHS staff Sept. 29.