Burns, a Newington Republican, stated that House leaders would introduce legislation Tuesday calling for a statewide database to track student mental health histories, development of an app for anonymously reporting threats to schools and a requirement for school districts to create safety management plans.
The legislation would also offer tax incentives for the purchase of firearm safes and other safety equipment and strengthen criminal penalties for students and other individuals who target schools with terroristic threats.
Burns stressed the seriousness of copycat threats that often follow tragedies like the Apalachee High School mass shooting on Sept. The Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency would help develop the system tracking student mental health history and reported threats that would be investigated by school personnel, mental health professionals and law enforcement agencies to determine the seriousness.
Burns said the plan would also create mandatory suspensions of students from school while the extent of their threats are investigated. On Feb. Facebook Instagram Twitter Youtube.
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