State Sen. Anthony Portantino (D-La Cañada Flintridge) decided to introduce another gun safety bill this year in response to the Nov. 30 Oxford, Mich., school shooting that left four dead and seven injured.
Two months after four people were killed and seven injured during a Michigan high school shooting, a California lawmaker said he will introduce a bill that would require school administrators to collect information from parents about guns stored at home and would mandate backpack, locker and car searches if there is a credible threat or danger of mass casualty.
School officials called a meeting with the boy’s parents Nov. 30, but he was allowed to return to class, and his backpack wasn’t searched. Hours later, he allegedly used a gun that his parents bought him as a Christmas present to open fire at the school.“We saw what inaction does in Michigan,” Portantino said. “Inaction leads to a tragedy. By empowering school districts with information and the mandate to investigate, we’re taking that inaction off the table.
Starting in 2023, public and charter schools would have to annually provide educational material on safe firearm storage to parents or guardians of students. Families would be required to notify the school during student registration of any guns in the home “and to answer questions about the ownership, storage, and accessibility by the pupil of the firearms,” the draft bill states.
The state Department of Education and state Department of Justice would have to develop “model content” for schools to use when dealing with the threat or perceived threat of a deadly incident, according to a bill fact sheet., according to data from Education Week, and the Michigan shooting was the deadliest since May 2018.after a former lecturer sent threatening messages to people on campus that included a video referencing a mass shooting and an 800-page manifesto.
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