Georgia’s second-largest school district will allow people who aren’t police officers to be armed on campus.
The school board for the Cobb County School District, a suburb of Atlanta, voted 4-2 on Thursday to allow people who are not teachers or don’t directly supervise students to be armed, according to multiple reports.
The firearms would have to be either concealed on the body or secured in a safe.
The guns-on-campus policy from Superintendent Chris Ragsdale made use of a 2014 Georgia state law that allowed school districts to arm teachers and other staffers.
Following the 2018 school shooting in Parkland, Florida, two smaller school districts implemented policies to arm teachers and staff.