- The Clarksville, Arkansas School District plans to arm teachers and staff with concealed guns in classrooms.
- The Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel, issues in a legal opinion that the state board that licenses private security agencies does not have the authority to allow districts to employ their teachers and staff as security guards. If the legal opinion of the AG is given any weight, then the state law that allows armed school personnel will not be implemented.
- Educators and law enforcement in Arkansas are working on a compromise to the controversy over arming teachers and staff. Under the proposal, only administrators would be armed after receiving sufficient training to become part of the reserve unit for the sheriff’s office.
- In Florida, the Okaloosa County School Board will contribute just more than $1 million to help keep deputies at all schools in the district.
- North Carolina begins implementing a new school safety policy that allows armed volunteers with firearms training into schools as safety officers.
- Schools begin in Brooks County, Georgia without school resource officers. Over the summer, the School Board voted to cut them out in order to save the schools 50,000 dollars a year.