School Officer Bill Passes Senate

The Kentucky Senate has passed legislation to require that police officers be armed when assigned to schools.

The bill cleared the Senate on a 34-1 vote Monday (1/27) and now goes to the House. The measure is a follow-up to last year’s sweeping school safety law. That law did not specify whether school police officers needed to carry a weapon. The new legislation would add the requirement that all school-based officers, known as school resource officers, be armed. Under the new measure, at least one officer would be assigned to each school campus