It looks like some people were taking advantage of the Tampa-area school district’s “grab-and-go” free meal program by grabbing the food, going online and offering it for sale.
The Hillsborough County School District put new restrictions in place Wednesday after determining that some of the give-away locations had run out of food and some people were showing up with food in their car.
Like school systems throughout Florida and the country, the free meals are meant to help families during the coronavirus pandemic when schools — and their feeding programs — are shut down.
"We had some individuals who made undesired behaviors last week but we stand ready with new organizational controls you know hats off to operations and the IT department for helping us with this process,” Hillsborough Schools Superintendent Addison Davis told WFLA television.