Bill would alter law about firearms in schools - Henry County Local
State Sen. Adrienne Southworth (R-Lawrenceburg) has introduced a bill that would modify the statute that forbids bringing firearms or other weapons into school facilities.
Titled Senate Bill 295, the proposed bill would allow people to carry weapons into school facilities provided they are not being used “for the purpose of educational or related activities where students are present.”
It would also modify the law to make it applicable only when a sign prohibiting weapons on school buildings are prominently displayed.
The current law requires those signs but, if they are not posted, it does not relief someone who carries a firearm into the building of violating the law.
If passed, the failure to post a sign would not result in the person being arrested, according to the proposed legislation.
“SB 295 addresses long-standing issues as well as our fresh awareness in Anderson County,” Southworth said, referring to an incident when a man was charged wit bringing a handgun into an Anderson County Board of Education meeting.
“Removing local government prohibitions was filed last year and I renewed it this year. Private schools under current law do not have the flexibility to choose their own gun policies, so the sign becoming the trigger allows our schools of all types to opt into the protection of the law as they desire.
“The law is so expansive that school-owned grounds such as a field rented for use by an outside organization should not be treated the same way as a classroom, so the sign is needed to identify to gun owners when they are on restricted property and not disparately treat gatherings renting the extension building vs. the school gym.”
Moments before that school board meeting began, school administrators were notified that the man had a holstered handgun on his hip and escorted him from the building.
Surveillance video shows the man leaving the building and placing the gun inside of a vehicle, before returning to speak during the public comment portion of the meeting.
A sheriff’s deputy charged the man with a felony the following day. He entered a not guilty plea in Anderson District Court before being indicated by an Anderson County Grand Jury. He was expected to be arraigned Tuesday in Anderson Circuit Court.
source: https://www.hclocal.com/content/bill-would-alter-law-about-firearms-schools
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