After yet another school shooting, Arizona School Superintendent Tom Horne was asked what could be done to prevent similar acts of violence.
In an appearance on PBS’ "Arizona Horizon," Horne reiterated his support for placing police officers in every school in the state.
He also highlighted the need for more funding overall, including for staff like school counselors.
“I would like the overall school safety funding which includes both counselors and policemen to be increased. But we were able to maintain all the school counselors that had gotten grants before and we were able to meet every request that we got from a school for a school resource officer," he said.
A shooting at a Georgia high school on Wednesday took the lives of four people, two teachers and two students, and injured at least nine others.
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Acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Troy Miller told reporters CBP has seized 50,000 pounds of fentanyl over the last two years — including a historic seizure in August of roughly 4 million pills at the Lukeville Port of Entry. -
An Arizona border sheriff is calling on voters to oppose a broad border security measure referred to the ballot by Republican lawmakers. -
The Arizona Counter Terrorism Information Center reported that it received 130 school threats in the span of 20 days last month. That’s compared to 177 for the first eight months of the year. -
No one was inside the building in Tempe, and no injuries were reported in any of the shootings. The latest incident occurred Sunday, when someone fired shortly after midnight at the door and windows of the office. -
Democrat Tyler Kamp and Republican Jerry Sheridan agree on two things: Filling all those vacancies is critical. And so is finding a way to get out from under the court order that requires federal monitoring of the sheriff’s office. They disagree, though, on who is best qualified to accomplish those tasks.
