JEFFERSON TWP — A South Butler School District parent has started an online petition to have metal detectors installed at every district school.

Tamara Finucan, who has a child in each of the district's four buildings, started the petition on Thursday night on change.org as a result of the threat the district suffered on Monday.

Jason Bowen, 18, faces terroristic threats and other charges for a video on his Snapchat account that shows him firing an AK style weapon with the caption “Training for prom walk.” He remains in the Butler County Prison on $100,000 cash bond.

An individual recorded the video and took it to the State Police barracks in Butler on Sunday night.

Finucan said her family moved to the South Butler district three years ago from the Butler School District.

“After (the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.), Butler took steps to get their safety under control by putting armed guards and metal detectors at entrances, and it made me and other parents and the children feel safer,” she said.

She was surprised that South Butler does not have metal detectors, which would find knives, guns and other weapons inside the items students bring to school.

“We're in a day and age where it's not an option, it should just happen,” Finucan said.

Read more about this story in Sunday's Butler Eagle.