Ohio Governor Mike DeWine issued an executive order creating a specialized division of Ohio Homeland Security (OHS) devoted exclusively to the safety of Ohio’s students and schools.
The Florida Department of Education’s budget proposal for the upcoming fiscal year, which began July 1, includes $100 million in mental-health spending.
The Florida Department of Education (FDOE), in coordination with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, announced an integrated data repository and data analytic resource to improve school threat assessment teams’ access to timely information from a variety of data sources to identify, assess and provide intervention services.
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine announced a series of legislative reforms to address gun violence and outlined further action to increase mental health prevention, identification, and treatment.
Parents of students in the Santa Fe, N.M. school district will have the final say on whether their children see an instructional video on strategies for surviving an active shooter situation.
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo signed legislation (S.231/A.951) establishing a speed camera program in school zones in the City of Buffalo. The program allows the City of Buffalo to enforce speed limits in school zones using cameras that record speeding violations in real time without the need for a police officer at the scene. The City can then use this evidence to impose liability on the owner of the vehicle for the speeding violation.
Congressman Roger Williams introduced The School Violence Prevention and Mitigation Act of 2019, which would establish federal grant programs for public schools to identify security risks and fix them and would appropriate $200 million for each of fiscal years 2020 through 2030.
NY Governor Andrew M. Cuomo signed legislation prohibiting state teachers from carrying guns in schools, and a second that streamlines the state’s gun buyback program.
