The June 14 message to the school’s ethics hotline reported that the guns were swiped from the trunk of a district car that belonged to the school security director. That set off a two-month investigation that eventually accounted for all the guns, proving the tipster wrong. But, an inability to track down records more quickly was tied to the district changing its record-management system at around the time the former procurement officer left in 2008.

“When you change systems, things happen,” the chief HR manager, Pamela Hall, said. She was charged with the investigation because the tipster alleged that an employee had stolen the guns. The school originally obtained the guns when it decided to replace the Atlanta Police Department with its own police department. While the investigation took a lot of employee hours, Hall said “we can’t have firearms disappear.”

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