Lockdown Bill Gains Senate Education Committee Approval

High School 1The Senate Education Committee passes a bill that requires South Dakota Schools to have a safety plan in place and conduct annual lockdown drills.  Senator Larry Tidemann of Brookings is the bill’s sponsor. He brought it forth at the request of the state’s school resource officers. Tidemann
says a similar bill made it through the Senate easily last year but died on the house floor…

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The bill has the support of several education groups including the School Administrators of South Dakota. Rob Monson is their executive director. He says they surveyed their members on the bill and got 113 responses…

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No one testified against the bill. Senator Bernie Hunhoff says most schools are already doing this…

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The measure passed unanimously and now moves to the Senate floor.