The Marion County Board of Education is working to apply for a school safety grant to install more security updates to the county's schools, including security cameras.

Fairmont Senior High School installed several security cameras last year and Principal Chad Norman says they're really helping out.

The cameras are spread out all over campus and can be monitored from different administrative offices as well as online by a few school officials.

Norman says it's a pro-active safety measure that they're glad to be taking. They put their cameras in strategic locations to help with student behavior and safety. They used data from their Responsible Students Program to local "hot spots" where students would tend to hang out or loiter.

Norman says the presence of the cameras has cut down on student tardiness, improved student behavior, and has allowed them to police the campus and catch students involved in a few on campus incidents this year.

Fairmont Senior High School plans to continue to install more cameras to continually increase student safety and security.

The Board of Education is still working on specific details of the application for the grant.