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Nearly a year after a person shot through the doorways of The Covenant School in Nashville’s Green Hills neighborhood and killed six people, the House passed legislation Monday setting stricter penalties for threats of mass violence.
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It's been nearly a year since six people — including three students — were killed in a mass shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville. While the Tennessee legislature hasn’t passed major gun reform, it did approve millions in state funds for security, including dedicated funds for private schools.
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As many schools struggle to hire school resource officers, a bill to create a new force of armed veterans and retired police officers passes the Senate.
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The Kentucky Senate Education Committee moved forward a bill that could create a force of armed veterans and retired police to protect schools.
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A proposed update to Kentucky’s School Safety Act would allow armed veterans and retired police to patrol schools.
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“I think we’re going to see a significant number of kids charged with this offense and I think it’s going to be students with disabilities”
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Governor Bill Lee signed into law legislation Wednesday designed to place more school resource officers in Tennessee public and private schools, funnel additional money for school security upgrades, and require every school to submit annual safety plans to the state.
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Nashville’s Metro Council has unanimously voted to reinstate freshman Democrat Justin Jones to his seat in the Tennessee House. The GOP-led legislature expelled Jones last week for gun reform protests he led on the chamber floor after the Covenant School shooting.
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The Tennessee House voted 72-25 to expel Rep. Justin Jones of Nashville and 69-26 to remove Rep. Justin Pearson of Memphis. Rep. Gloria Johnson of Knoxville survived expulsion by a single vote.
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After Monday’s mass shooting at Covenant School, Tennessee Democrats are calling on their Republican counterparts to limit access to guns. But Republicans do not want to talk about it.