Articles Tagged with ''Newtown shooting''

Fontana Unified School District's school police officers will now check out a semiautomatic rifle each morning to bring with them on their patrols from school to school.

The New Canaan School District will add five new security officers, new two-way radios and cell service boosters in order to bolster security at the district's schools.

It will cost $12,000 for two months of having an off-duty deputy stationed at Old Kings Elementary School, but Laura Lauria is footing the bill anyway.

Renewing the assault weapons ban is only one of multiple proposals and 23 executive actions laid out by President Obama in response to the Newtown massacre. 

Most active shooters in the past decade acted alone, the report notes, and 51 percent were deceased following the attack. 

Teachers at Spring City, Utah's elementary school could also receive free firearm training under a proposed ordinance. 

LAPD officers will "adopt" a school and visit for 30 minutes everyday, the new policy states, talking with teachers, parents and staff, in an effort to stave off violence after the Dec. 14, 2012, shootings in Newtown, Conn.

The "Armani" of bulletproof clothing has created a new line specifically for U.S. and Canadian schoolchildren, ages 8 to 14. 

Backpacks with carbon nanotube armor plating have gone viral this week after the devastating shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School last Friday.