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Legislation that would allow school security officers to be armed with stun guns, pepper spray and similar weapons is advancing in the General Assembly. 

A Connecticut state commission released a draft report of recommendations to prevent future school shootings.  

 Officials in Newtown voted night to tear down the home where Adam Lanza lived before he carried out the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Modesto City Schools will form an eight-member security team by next fall to patrol its high schools. 

Families of two of the 20 first-graders killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting are suing the town of Newtown, Conn., and its board of education, for inadequate school security. 

Civilian security personnel at public schools in Delaware could carry stun guns and other nonlethal weapons.

A school district has sued the city of Taft, California, claiming a school shooting two years ago would not have happened if a police officer was on duty.

The families of nine of the 26 people killed and a teacher injured at the Sandy Hook Elementary School filed a lawsuit against the manufacturer, distributor and seller of the rifle used in the shooting.

The parents of 10 children killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School have filed or soon will file notices in probate court that they plan to make wrongful death claims on their children’s behalf.

A Methuen, Mass school will soon have an automated system to detect and track a gunman on campus.