OH – CAMPUS GUNS – Ohio teachers can carry guns at school without needing peace-officer training, AG Dave Yost tells Supreme Court
Ohio teachers and other school personnel should be allowed to carry firearms on school grounds without needing prior peace-officer training or experience, Attorney General Dave Yost argued in a legal brief to the state Supreme Court this week. Yost filed the brief in support of the Madison Local School District Board of Education in Butler County, which allowed school employees to voluntarily carry concealed firearms so long as they have a conceal-carry permit and undergo active shooter training. The policy change came after a 14-year-old student opened fire at Madison Junior-Senior High School in 2016, injuring four. The 12th District Court of Appeals sided with several parents who sued the school district, claiming that a state law has far higher training requirements in place to carry a gun in schools. The law they cite states that no school “shall employ a person as a special police officer, security guard, or other position in which such person goes armed while on duty,” unless that person has completed either peace-officer training or served at least 20 years as an active-duty officer. [full article]