School Safety
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A few months ago, the Alabama Resilience Council convened to discuss ways to prepare the state for extreme weather events. Interesting ideas surfaced, especially on fortifying homes against storm and wind damage. What wasn’t discussed? Climate change. Last week a school safety commission met to discuss responses to and preparations for violence in schools. There […]
Alabama state commission to study school safety
A state commission Tuesday focused on two topics: preventing threats to school safety and ensuring proper communication when a violent incident erupts. School shootings were a focus of the School Safety Advisory Commission’s discussion, but there was little talk of guns. Alabama has some of the highest firearm death rates in the country. Rep. Terri […]
Alabama lawmaker files bill requiring safe storage of firearms
An Alabama lawmaker has filed a bill that would require parents and guardians to secure their firearms, and subject them to felony charges if their child brings a gun to a public school. The bill, HB 123, sponsored by Rep. Barbara Drummond, D-Mobile, would require gun owners with children to store their weapons in a […]
Alabama bill would require law enforcement to participate in school lockdown drills
A state representative has filed a bill that would require schools to have regularly scheduled lockdown drills involving school resource officers and law enforcement. The legislation, sponsored by Rep. Pebblin Warren, D-Tuskegee, would require school districts to include school resource officers and law enforcement in lockdown drills and to designate the days of drills to […]