Students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School will soon be allowed to only wear clear school backpacks on campus.

Officials at Disney theme parks in Florida and California and SeaWorld in Orlando are boosting security and banning toy guns to protect tourists.
 

Metal detectors have been installed at three entrances to the Ohio Statehouse as part of increased security measures.
 

Security measures in American high schools can have unintended consequences that hinder, rather than help students learn, according to research by the University at Buffalo.
 

Changes to New York city's student safety act includes reporting of when kids are handcuffed in schools and when school safety agents are injured in scuffles with kids.

Security on Europe's rail networks will be stepped up with cross-border armed patrols and increased spot checks on trains.

Movie theater chain Regal Entertainment Group has begun to check bags in response to shootings at theaters around the country.

Nearly a third of moviegoers believe that bags and purses should be checked for weapons before people go into a theater, and 34% believe that lobbies should have armed security personnel and a metal detector.  

Lawmakers have proposed the Undetectable Firearms Modernization Act, legislation that would require all guns to contain enough metal to be detected by metal detectors and X-Ray machines at checkpoints and airports.