A new law in response to Uvalde requires armed personnel on every public school campus, among other things.
Tarrant County College Law Enforcement Academy training coordinator Rafael Perea shows school district administrators, teachers and employees how to breach a room with a battering ram during a Texas School Marshal licensing course June 28.Over the summer, Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law a new measure that requires armed personnel on every public school campus, among other things.
However, critics of the new requirement note that law enforcement was criticized for the response at Robb. Eighty minutes passed betweenThe preferred option is for each school to have a law enforcement officer, said Kathy Martinez-Prather, director of the Texas School Safety Center. If a district has funding or personnel restraints, it can fill the requirement through other means. That could include hiring a security officer from a private company or using a state provision that trains educators to be armed in schools.requires staffers to undergo 80 hours of training overseen by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement, as well as a psychological background check.
Only three locations can train school marshals: Tarrant County College, the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service and the West Central Texas Council of Governments. Grigsby said that number will increase in the next few months.Most middle and high school campuses in Texas already have officers, Martinez-Prather said. Administrators will need to fill spots in elementary schools.
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