Ben Wilcox shapes role of Kentucky’s first state school security marshal amid COVID-19 pandemic

By Jim Gaines
Kentucky Teacher
Ben Wilcox laughs a little when asked how COVID-19 has changed his job as Kentucky’s state school security marshal.
He hadn’t been on the job long when the pandemic hit. The position of state school security marshal had only been created in March 2019. Wilcox formally started work July 1 of that year, but a month earlier he began traveling the state to share information...