• More than 200 teachers from Pinellas County, Florida have expressed interest in a free class to learn about carrying a concealed weapon.
• The town of Little Ferry, New Jersey, volunteered to reassign school resource officers to the school district free of charge. The officers were taken away from the schools in 2009 in the wake of budget cuts.
• Limestone County, Alabama will begin hiring retired peace officers for duty at elementary schools. The 12 retired officers will work part-time and share duties at the county’s feeder schools.
• Indiana legislature considering radical school safety policy that would require an employee in every public or charter school to carry a loaded gun during school hours.