One of the largest school districts in Georgia on Thursday voted to allow some employees who are not police officers to carry guns in schools, two months after the deadliest school shooting since Sandy Hook left 19 students and two teachers dead in Uvalde Texas—and Georgia is one of at least a dozen states in the U.S. that allow some non-security school personnel to be armed under certain conditions.
In a 4-2 vote, suburban Atlanta Cobb County school board agreed to allow employees—although not teachers and other staff who supervise classrooms—to carry weapons on school grounds.
The decision comes two months after Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed a law cutting the hours of training required for personnel to carry arms in schools from 700 to 24.
Georgia and Ohio as well as Montana, Alaska and Colorado allow personnel who aren’t police officers—including teachers, in certain circumstances—to carry weapons with permission from a school authority, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures and the Giffords Law Center To Prevent Gun Violence, a public interest law center that promotes gun control.
In Idaho and Kansas, school employees other than police officers can be armed if they have a concealed carry permit and permission from schools, while Florida and South Dakota require school permission and certain training for school personnel, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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