Proposals from Utah House Republicans include hiring more school resource officers, requiring monthly active threat drills and collecting data.
Rep. Cheryl Acton, R-West Jordan, Rep. Dan Johnson, R-Logan, Rep. Ryan Wilcox, R-Ogden, Rep. Karen Peterson, R-Clinton, and Rep. Karianne Lisonbee, R-Clearfield, from left, hold a news conference at the Utah Capitol on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023, to discuss school safety legislation.House Republicans spotlighted a raft of bills they say will improve safety in Utah’s schools on Thursday.
“This will help us to raise that minimum standard across the state, to ensure that the secure and safe school that a kid happens to be attending isn’t dependent upon where he or she lives,” Wilcox said “Whenever we have to face the situation where the active threat is an active shooter, we have to be really, really careful about using those kinds of words around young children. I want to make sure that when we require training for a child in kindergarten or first grade, we use developmentally appropriate language around those children,” Johnson said.
Rep. Karianne Lisonbee, R-Clearfield, speaks during a news conference at the Utah Capitol on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023, to discuss school safety legislation., which allows school resource officers to address illegal conduct on school grounds, something she says is not happening currently. Johnson also said he has a yet-to-be-unveiled bill that aims to reduce high absenteeism rates in Utah’s schools.from Rep. Cheryl Acton, R-West Jordan, requires schools to report incidents involving weapons on school grounds to law enforcement and the school district so they can compile statistics on the scope of the problem.
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