Don’t criminalize teachers

HB24-1310 makes a variety of changes to existing state law, including:

• Eliminating the ability for trained staff with duties other than security to carry firearms in schools. The bill will make any currently armed school staff who have duties besides security into felons overnight, regardless of their level of training.

• Significantly tightening requirements for armed “school security officers,” including contract security, that will make it difficult and expensive for schools to maintain their security teams. The bill includes no money to fund these new mandates in already cash-strapped schools.

• Restricting when law enforcement or staff can store firearms on campus, which could significantly impede response times to violent incidents in schools