A law giving local boards of education authority to decide whether to allow their teachers and school workers to carry firearms went into effect September 12. Since then, some districts schools are choosing to arm their staff.
HB 99 created the Ohio School Safety and Crisis Center within the Department of Public Safety and school districts who want their staff to be armed must submit their training plans for approval after their school board approves the request to arm staff.
The Ohio School Safety and Crisis Center will begin offering training courses for interested districts starting in June, Torok said. Schools in Rolling Hills Local School District, in Cambridge, are about 15-25 minutes away from law enforcement. “ just not enough to ensure that this very serious responsibility that we are entrusting to keep our students safe,” DiMauro said.Indian Lake Local Schools, in Lewistown, has about a dozen staff members armed with firearms on school grounds.
“We don’t want to have every single person in the building with a firearm by any stretch of the imagination,” he said. school shooting in January 2017 when a 17-year-old student opened fire“We learned a lot from that situation,” Underwood said. “And at the end of the day, we just believe that it’s a part of our safety plan that helps to keep our kids safe.” A select number of staff members at St Marys City Schools, in St Marys, is currently going through the training process with St.
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