Florida lawmakers are looking to enhance school safety following Tuesday's mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.
FILE - Campus monitor Hector Garcia greets students as they get off the bus at the start of the school day at West Elementary School in New Canaan, Conn., on Nov. 6, 2017. The shooting massacre at a Texas elementary school has spurred renewed calls for school safety, but experts debate whether more heavily fortified schools are the right solution. A bill first filed in January aims to develop threat assessment teams, safe-school officers, certain emergency drills, and more.
One day after 19 children and two adults were murdered at an elementary school in Texas, Florida officials signed and presented houseIn a statement to News4Jax, Florida Representative Fred Hawkins says “The signing of this Bill will enhance Florida School safety and also bolster law enforcements role in incident prevention.”The Texas Department of Public Safety Director says officials made the wrong decision in waiting to breach the room where the shooter was.
Florida politicians say they too will study what happened in Texas and everywhere else to make sure they aren’t missing anything when it comes to school safety, protocols, and incident prevention.It includes training for faculty and students protocol and mental health crisis intervention training. Hawkins says mental health training measures “Allow law enforcement personnel and school staff to in effect become more sensitive to the warning signs of someone who is deeply troubled and thus mitigate risk before incidents have a chance to occur.”
He says their thoughts and prayers are with Texas and that “We must remain vigilant and train to recognize how best to react to such incidents and also learn how to defuse such events from occurring in the first place. HB 1421 is another step in the right direction to keep Florida Schools safe.”Copyright 2022 by WJXT News4JAX - All rights reserved.
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