The Glynn County Schools Police Department is looking for four parents in Glynn County who have warrants for their arrests.
They are being charged with educational neglect after their children had too many unexcused absences at school.
Six parents were arrested for their kids having too many unexcused school absences in a recent sweep.
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In total, 20 parents were taken to jail this school year for truancy.
"It lets them know that we are serious about having students in school," Rod Ellis, Glynn County Schools Police chief, said.
Ellis said that citations have always been issued for educational neglect under Georgia law, but it was not until last school year that police started arresting parents.
"We are a little more assertive with the program," Ellis said. "(We) had our ducks in a row to be assertive with it."
The enforcement program focused on the 10 elementary schools in the district to see which students had more than 10 unexcused absences.
"We’re focusing on the small children who can't fend for themselves,” Ellis said.
Ellis called the arrests a last resort.
"We've had meetings, we've written letters and we have begged them to get these kids in school," Ellis said.
Action News Jax’s Danielle Avitable spent three hours trying to track down the parents who were taken to jail but wasn't able to.
"It makes them difficult to locate because they are moving around, so they are hard to locate from time to time," Ellis said.
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Action News Jax looked into truancy cases in other counties.
In May, we told you 168 Duval County parents were facing criminal charges.
In April, we reported that two parents were arrested for not sending their four kids to school enough in Camden County.
"Any time a kid is not in school, it lowers the graduation rate. Any time you have a lower graduation rate, you have a potential problem with crime," Ellis said.