Mississippi Schools Board Updates Policy, Clearing Way for Some Staff to Have Guns on Campus

Mississippi Schools Board Updates Policy, Clearing Way for Some Staff to Have Guns on Campus
Children leave Wilkins Elementary school in in Jackson, Miss., on March 24, 2022. Francois Picard/AFP via Getty Images
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Education officials in Mississippi voted on Thursday to remove a requirement that blocked guns in public schools. The move allows school districts in the state to determine their own rules on school security, including to potentially allow some staff to carry guns on campus.

The vote by the Mississippi Board of Education updates an internal policy adopted in 1990 that prohibited the possession of firearms and weapons in any form “by any person other than duly authorized law enforcement officials on school premises or at school functions.”

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