Each elementary school in Hillsborough County will have a police officer on campus through the end of the school year. The Sheriff's Office there is footing the nearly $2 million bill. Other districts in the state are also responding after the Newtown, Connecticut massacre last month.

Full-time and armed police officers are already in high schools and middle schools in counties that include the cities of Jacksonville, Orlando, Tampa, and Miami.

In the days after the Connecticut shooting, Police Departments around Florida also placed officers in elementary schools.
But now that students are returning from their winter break  cities like Fort Lauderdale and Pasco and Pinellas Counties are back to business as usual, with no officers at elementary schools.

Palm Beach County is considering adding metal detectors and more guards in all public schools.

In Orange County, the Sheriff's Office plans to send officers to each elementary school in the unincorporated areas, but nowhere else. There's not enough money.

Police departments throughout the state say police will make more stops at elementary schools when time permits.