A 2020 audit by the Texas School Safety Center found that fewer than a fifth of school districts across the state had emergency operations plans with active shooter policies. Uvalde CISD was one of them.
, prompting her and others to question if it’s all for show.
The center’s audit showed more than 600 districts did not have active-shooter policies. About 200 others had plans that auditors deemed inadequate. And just 67 had emergency plans up to state standards, according to the report. Red flag laws also never became a reality, with Rep. Dan Crenshaw complaining that such bills attempt to “enforce the law before the law has been broken.”
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