School bus drops girl off in liquor store parking lot

DOUGLAS COUNTY, Ga. — Parents are upset because a young student is being dropped off from school outside a local liquor store instead of the child’s apartment complex just a short distance away.

"To me it seems really dangerous," neighbor Devon Flack told Channel 2’s Carl Willis.

Concerned neighbors called Channel 2 Action News after seeing a school bus driver repeatedly drop off a little girl at a Douglas County liquor store parking lot.

"It just seems kind of sketchy. I'm surprised the school district would even allow it," Flack said.

Flack told Willis the girl has had to dodge cars in the lot and deal with traffic at the busy entrance to her apartment complex.

He said he and the store manager complained to Douglas County School's transportation department about it.

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Willis was at the drop off last week where he had a chance to question the bus driver, who again did not go into the complex despite an open gate.

“Have you been dropping the little girl in the liquor store parking lot?” Willis asked the bus driver.

“Yes I have,” the bus driver said.

“Why is that?” Willis asked.

“Because that's what I was told to do,” the driver said. “From transportation.”

Willis saw at least one other school bus go into the complex.

“I'm not allowed to do that,” The bus driver told Willis.

“I've seen one today already go into the parking lot,” Willis told the driver.

“I'm sorry but I was told I could not do that,” the driver told Willis.

"I have called and complained,” the girl’s mother, Jasmyan Milton, told Willis. “They should be going into the neighborhood."

Willis spoke with a district spokesperson last week, who promised the district would correct any problems.

When he called back Tuesday, the district spokesperson told Willis the apartment staff agreed to leave the gate open long enough for the child to get in safely.

"If the little girl lives inside of the community she needs to be dropped off like the rest of the kids inside of the gate," Flack said.

Neighbors said it took several calls for their concerns to be heard. The driver told Willis the girl's mother was inconsistent with meeting the bus.

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