(The Center Square) – A resolution that would allow school officials and law enforcement to determine what is a “valid threat” of mass violence to schools was pulled from a Tennessee school district’s agenda Thursday night.
A Hamilton County Board of Education member said a town hall meeting will be held on the issue next month.
Law enforcement and school officials should “be able to screen out threats made by students that do not constitute true, credible threats to security of the school and well-being of all students,” the resolution said. “Students who have not made valid, credible threats against the security of the school or the safety of their classmates are nevertheless being arrested and detained when these same students might not face discipline at school.”
Tennessee lawmakers passed a bill that makes threatening mass violence a felony offense. The resolution is not an effort to change state law or lower standards, said Dr. Justin Robertson, superintendent of Hamilton County Schools.