The Senate Education Committee has approved a bill to require police officers assigned to Kentucky schools to be armed.
The committee on Thursday (1/23) advanced the measure to the full Senate. The action came on the second anniversary of the shooting at Marshall County High School in western Kentucky. Two 15-year-old students were killed and more than a dozen others were injured.
The bill is a follow-up to last year’s school safety law, which did not specify whether school police officers needed to carry a weapon. The new bill would add the requirement that all school-based officers be armed.
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