Sen. Rick Scott’s bill would fund armed officers in all U.S. schools
shooting that created the Coach Aaron Feis Guardian Program, named after one of the adult victims. Currently 46 of Florida’s 67 counties participate in that program while others work with local law enforcement agencies to provide security, according to the state Department of Education.
, a Republican, first discussed the new measure after the March 27 shooting at an elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee that claimed six lives, including three 9-year-old children.said at a news conference in Naples, Florida. “The truth is, every school is going to need law enforcement. Every kid ought to be protected.”
Republicans in Congress have harshly criticized the sharp increase in IRS funding that was part of President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act. The GOP-led House, in fact, made elimination of the IRS money one of its first votes after winning a slim majority in the 2020 midterm elections. Republicans have argued the IRS money would install thousands more agents to unfairly target Americans over taxes, which Democrats say is highly misleading and not the main purpose of the funding. In any event, the Democratic-led Senate is not planning to take up that measure - and it’s not clear whetherThe legislation would set up a block grant program through the Justice Department that would potentially fund an armed law enforcement officer at every K-12 school in the U.S.
The grants would flow through state-level law enforcement agencies and unused money would be returned each year to the federal government, according to a summary of“No family should have to go through the indescribable heartbreak of having their child or spouse murdered at school,” said Tony Montalto, whose 14-year-old daughter Gina died in theCopyright © 2023 The Washington Times, LLC.
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