• School administrators in Henderson County, Kentucky reflects on the success of the Safe Schools Initiative at Henderson County Schools started in the mid-1990s. Since that time, educators have embraced working with law enforcement officials for preventive measures rather than waiting for something to happen and reacting to the threat.
• A new Kansas law gives school districts permission to decide whether to allow employees to conceal and carry weapons on campus.
• The Tennessee governor Bill Haslam signed into law a new safe school policy that allows schools to approve teachers who have law enforcement backgrounds and have undergone specialized training, to go armed. The new state law also allows schools to hire retired police officers and others with specialized law enforcement to provide an armed presence in schools.
• In a new partnership between the Kearney, Missouri School District and the Kearney Police Department is designed to create a safer school environment for students and staff. Under the new School Visitation Program, campuses will begin to see a more regular police presence through visits from on-duty officers as they complete their daily patrols.
• Montgomery County, Maryland lawmakers say that they will not give the public schools more resource police officers until school officials create a concrete plan on how they would be used.