Tennessee Republican Governor Invoice Lee mentioned he plans to increase a college security measure to incorporate the posting of faculty assist officers at each college within the state following the capturing at a non-public Christian college in Nashville.
The governor’s plan comes after a 28-year-old transgender man opened fireplace on the Covenant College, killing six individuals, together with three kids. The police killed the suspect.
Lee opened up in regards to the emotional influence the capturing left on the group.
“I feel all of us perceive when individuals are scared, when individuals are offended, when individuals lash out. I’ve the identical feelings myself, all of us do,” Lee informed The Tennessean. “We’ve got an obligation, I’ve an obligation, to do what I can and work with leaders on this group to handle individuals’s considerations and defend our youngsters in any method we are able to.”
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Tennessee Republican Governor Invoice Lee mentioned he plans to increase a college security measure to incorporate the posting of faculty assist officers at each college within the state following the capturing at a non-public Christian college in Nashville. (AP Photograph/Mark Zaleski, File)
The governor’s plan would increase a proposal to put an armed guard, also referred to as a college useful resource officer, in each public college in Tennessee and supply state funding to non-public colleges to rent an armed guard.
Beneath this proposal, which must be accredited by the state legislature, personal colleges could be required to make use of safety guards with the identical degree of coaching as public college necessities. Nevertheless, personal colleges won’t be pressured to make the most of this system.
Lee issued an identical govt order final 12 months and pushed a brand new college security plan into his state handle earlier this 12 months. State lawmakers have been contemplating the brand new proposal in current weeks, which incorporates sanctions for public colleges caught in safety violations.
The governor’s preliminary price range proposal this 12 months included $20 million for varsity constructing safety upgrades. He additionally plans to suggest increasing this fund with extra cash for personal colleges.
A 28-year-old transgender man opened fireplace on the Covenant College final week, killing six individuals. (AP Photograph/John Amis)
The brand new plan would additionally search extra psychological well being help by means of college behavioral well being contacts. Lee beforehand established a $250 million psychological well being “belief fund” that has but to be spent.
“Psychological well being points are one thing we have to proceed to spend money on,” Lee mentioned. “There are conversations throughout the board about pupil psychological well being and psychological well being basically. And help for individuals who need assistance, who really turn into a menace to themselves or others.”
Excessive Threat Safety (ERPO) legal guidelines, also referred to as “pink flag” legal guidelines, are in impact in practically 20 U.S. states, however Lee wouldn’t explicitly decide to such a measure. Beneath “pink flag” legal guidelines, authorities can problem a civil order to deprive a person of weapons for a restricted time if they’re decided to pose an elevated danger to themselves or others.
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CCTV footage exhibits cops from the Nashville Police Division responding to the Covenant College in Nashville after 28-year-old Audrey Hale opened fireplace. (Nashville Metropolitan Police Division)
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“Most sensible, considerate individuals imagine that people who pose a menace to themselves or others mustn’t have entry to weapons,” Lee mentioned. “For my part, that is a sensible, considerate strategy.”
9-year-old college students Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney had been killed within the capturing, together with college principal Katherine Koonce, 60, deputy trainer Cynthia Peak, 61, and custodian Mike Hill, 61.