Arkansas School Safety Commission meet to finalize interim report

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KAIT/KARK) – The Arkansas College Security Fee met for its final assembly earlier than handing over its interim report back to Governor Asa Hutchinson.

The fee will meet once more on Aug. 8, however Tuesday’s assembly is the final earlier than the interim report is because of Hutchinson on Aug. 1.

Content material associate KARK mentioned, “The fee reconvened following the Uvalde college taking pictures in Could.”

“No campus ought to ever be with out an armed presence always when workers are attending class or main extra-curricular actions,” mentioned Washington County Sheriff Tim Helder, who’s the Chair of the Regulation Enforcement and Safety Subcommittee. “I can’t consider a greater time to get it completed than now… that we change into just a little bit extra forceful in our method so far as what we would like the legislature to do.”

Many concepts have been talked about Tuesday, corresponding to carefully monitoring the social media of potential shooters, preserving college and classroom doorways at all times locked, and extra carefully monitoring firearm gross sales within the state.

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