A Boston-based home security company co-founded by the chief financial officer of Boston Public Schools has cut its ties to the National Rifle Association amid fierce pushback among parents and gun control activists.

SimpliSafe, co-founded in 2006 by Chad and Eleanor Laurans, had given NRA members two months of free monitoring with a purchase of a new home security system until today. Eleanor Laurans is the BPS chief financial officer.

"We have discontinued our existing relationship with the NRA,” said SimpliSafe CEO Chad Laurans in a statement provided through spokesperson Molly Galler.

The company did not make the Laurans available for comment.

The fallout comes after liberal media site, ThinkProgress.org, this week published a list of more than two dozen companies doing business with the gun lobby in the wake of a school shooting where a 19-year-old gunman armed with a semiautomatic AR-15 rifle killed 17 at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.,

Activists and local parents swiftly took to social media yesterday to condemn Eleanor Laurans’ ties to the company, calling into question BPS’ commitment to creating safe schools. Laurans has served as CFO since 2015, according to her LinkedIn profile. BPS did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

“I was surprised given BPS’ recent commitment to the Sandy Hook Promise that we would have someone in such a position in Boston Public Schools that was making deals with the NRA on the side,” said Jane Miller, a parent activist and organizer of Start Smart BPS. “We couldn’t believe it was the same person. You can’t speak on behalf of the children of the city then work with the NRA on the side.”

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