Senate School Safety Committee Holds Its First Meeting
The Georgia Senate School Safety Study Committee met for the first time on Friday. The committee will hold four more meetings.
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Members of the Georgia Senate School Safety Study Committee held the first of five meetings Friday.
About 75 teachers, students, parents and school safety officials showed up to North Springs High School in Sandy Springs to lay out some of their concerns.
Suggestions to the committee ranged from putting more therapists in schools to improving technology for students to use when they feel in danger.
Andrea Spielvogel has one and a half year old twins but says she showed up because it’s about being proactive.
“I want my kids to go to a public school,” Spielvogel said. “I think we have a great public school system and I don’t want them to not to be able to go because I’m worried about them being shot.”
She says she hopes Senators look at some type of gun legislation, but committee members have said in the past, that isn’t their focus.
Democratic Sen. Valencia Seay is on the committee. She said within the last decade, attitudes have shifted on arming school resource officers.
“All these different schools are having these different incidents,” Seay says. “And I do believe that the SROs are our first defense and we should look more towards them.”
Seay said she also hopes gun legislation becomes part of the discussion.
The committee’s next meeting is July 13 in Ringgold.
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