Georgia House Speaker pushes for school safety legislation

After September’s deadly school shooting in Georgia, a call goes out for greater gun control
A Georgia Democratic lawmaker is pushing for stricter gun safety laws to stem a tide of violence like the mass shooting last September at a high school northeast of Atlanta.
‘They could’ve done more:’ Apalachee High School students push for increased safety measures
“I feel like they could’ve done more,” said junior Maurice Rivera Guzman about why he decided to walk out of class with hundreds of others at Apalachee High School on Tuesday. It was the same walk many of them made in September, that time fleeing a school shooter who killed two of their peers and two teachers.
Georgia House Speaker pushes for school safety legislation after Apalachee shooting
To prevent future school shootings like the one that occurred at Apalachee High School last September, House Speaker Jon Burns said he will support the development of a statewide database that would contain information about students’ mental health history.
Father of Apalachee High School shooting victim backs Georgia push to track students
Georgia's state House speaker wants a statewide student database of disciplinary, mental health and law enforcement information to determine which students might commit violence at school.
Georgia representatives push for safety with families from Apalachee High School
This comes after a school safety package was proposed
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Apalachee HS shooting victim's brother demands better security in Barrow County schools
It's been five months since the mass shooting at Apalachee High School and parents continue to push for stronger safety ...
Apalachee High student, families go to GA Capitol demanding tougher school safety, gun storage laws
At the Georgia State Capitol, a student from Apalachee High School and members of the Apalachee family came together with ...
Apalachee High School students call for change with walkout
Students who survived the deadly shooting are calling for stricter laws to prevent school shootings in the future.
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Apalachee students, parents, and GA lawmakers gather at state capitol to address school safety
The fact that a 14-year-old got his hands on a gun and killed four people inside her daughter’s high school, shows parent ...
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In wake of Apalachee shooting, Speaker Burns encouraging the state to adopt school safety plan
In the aftermath of the horrific Apalachee High School shooting back in September, Georgia House Speaker Jon Burns on Monday, ...
Barrow County Board of Education approves weapons detection systems for middle schools
During Tuesday night's Board of Education meeting, parents and students voiced their concerns about school safety, urging officials to take additional measures.
Georgia House Speaker introduces new bill aimed at school safety
Among other things, the plan would create a school and student database operated by GEMA to collect and evaluate data to ...
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Georgia legislators unveiled school safety initiative
Georgia legislators unveiled a series of proposals concerning school safety this week.  Last September, four people were ...