Investigate school lunch program

The charges lodged Friday against Dougherty County Board of Education member Velvet Riggins, who is accused of falsifying information on an application for free or reduced-cost school lunches and of committing an offense as a public official, should be sufficient cause for an independent investigation of the program as a whole.

The reduced-cost and free school lunch programs are important to many families who have trouble ensuring their children have a decent lunch. In Dougherty County, which has its share of poverty, more than four out of every five of the public schools