The bill will ask school safety agents to get crisis intervention training, mandate districts to ensure that no less than 80 percent of staffers get mental health training, and let safety officers make arrests at charter schools.
The legislation will preserve the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Public Safety Commission, a board “formed to specifically analyze information from the school shooting and other mass violence incidents in the state and address recommendations and system improvements.”
A former student killed 17 people at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland in 2018.
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“Every child needs a safe and secure learning environment,” DeSantis announced on Tuesday. “By signing HB 1421, we continue to build on the many steps we have taken since 2019 to implement the recommendations of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Public Safety Commission while also making record investments in mental health and school safety.”
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Salvador Ramos, 18, murdered 19 students and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24.
The killings have ignited demands for new school security and gun control measures across the nation.
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Ten days after a gunman slaughtered 19 students and their two teachers in their classrooms at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, there are still significant gaps in the information officials have released about law enforcement’s response.
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“My point as a policymaker, which is the third function of my job, is to make sure this doesn’t happen again,” said state Sen. Roland Gutierrez, a Democrat who represents Uvalde.
“How in the world are we going to be able to do anything if we can’t figure out what happened in that building in those 40 minutes?”
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Meanwhile, a box of loaded guns was discovered at a Parkland, Florida school Thursday, several miles away from the site of the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas mass shooting, reports announced.
The weapons belonged to Somerset Academy Principal Geyler Castro, officials at the charter school told parents in a Friday letter, according to WPLG-TV.
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Castro brought a closed box containing two firearms into the school; they were discovered unattended by officials in a locked room, the station reported.
“No one intended to bring a weapon into the building. The box was among many items brought into the locked room from the principal’s vehicle,” the school’s board announced after a police investigation.
It is a felony to carry a gun into a school building in Florida. It was unclear if prosecutors would file charges against Castro, who had not issued a statement, the station explained.
Somerset Academy is less than three miles from Stoneman Douglas High School, where 17 people were slain, and 17 others were wounded by a former student in 2018.