Coffee High School has been selected as one of five Georgia schools that will utilize drones to stop mass shootings, WABE is reporting. This fall, Coffee High School, along with Forsyth Central High School (Cumming), Gainesville High School, River Ridge High School (Woodstock), and Statesboro High School, will launch the program.
Campus Guardian Angel, a Texas-based program, deploys drones that are housed on campus in the event of an active shooter. Operators fly the drones from Texas and have the capability to put the drones in the air seconds after an alarm is sounded. The drones go into action well before law enforcement can arrive on campus.
Last November, Campus Guardian Angel performed a demonstration at Coffee High School. The drones can fly inside and outside of the school and use a variety of tactics to disorient and stop a shooter, including pepper spray, non-lethal projectiles, strobe lights, and even striking the shooter with enough force to disable a person.
The program is slated to run for the 2026-2027 school year and will be paid for by the state. The program will conclude at the end of the school year unless the legislature adds more funding or schools take up the mantle themselves.
The Campus Guardian Angel is the latest in a series of strategies that school systems across the nation are utilizing to stop mass shootings before an individual can inflict casualties on campus. Campus Guardian Angel is a unique program that shows tremendous promise in addressing the issues that school systems face regarding active shooter events.
A video of the Coffee High demonstration from November can be seen above.
