Governor Haslam Approves New School Safety Recommendations

Governor Bill Haslam has approved the recommendations of a school safety panel, including a security risk assessment of all Tennessee public school facilities. Two other priorities will be increasing available resources to aid school resource officers and providing a statewide technology application for anonymous reporting of security threats. Haslam said in a statement that assessments at public elementary and secondary schools should begin immediately and that assessments should be finished before students return in the fall.