{"id":129884,"date":"2021-06-23T19:06:12","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T19:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=129884"},"modified":"2021-06-23T19:06:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T19:06:12","slug":"ohio-supreme-court-rules-teachers-cant-carry-guns-in-school-without-police-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/politics\/ohio-supreme-court-rules-teachers-cant-carry-guns-in-school-without-police-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio Supreme Court Rules Teachers Can’t Carry Guns In School Without Police Training"},"content":{"rendered":"
Ohio\u2019s top court ruled Wednesday that teachers in the state can\u2019t be armed with a gun unless they have gone through police training or have 20 years of experience as a peace officer.<\/p>\n
The Ohio Supreme Court ruled 4-3 in its decision not to arm teachers following a 2018 resolution from the Madison School Board to arm designated teachers and staff \u201cfor the welfare and safety of [its] students,\u201d according to court documents. The school board\u2019s resolution was in response to a 2016 school shooting at Madison Junior\/Senior High School that left four students injured.<\/p>\n
While the school board required employees to undergo several training programs and have a concealed carry permit, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled that teachers and other staff would instead need to go through police training or have 20 years of experience as a peace officer. Becoming a peace officer in Ohio currently require a physical fitness test and more than 730 hours of training.<\/p>\n
Ohio law already requires any employee expected to perform security duties to have police training, a law Republican Gov. Mike DeWine had hoped to circumvent to allow school employees to carry firearms when he was state attorney general in 2013.<\/p>\n
\u201cOhio law does not prevent a local school board from arming an employee unless that employee\u2019s duties rise to the level that he\/she would be considered \u2018security personnel,\u2019\u201d DeWine argued in a letter to the chairman of the Buckeye Firearms Association following the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting.<\/p>\n
But Chief Justice Maureen O\u2019Connor, who wrote Wednesday\u2019s opinion citing sections of the law that require peace officer training, said the law \u201cdoes not provide schools with a mechanism to circumvent that requirement.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause the board\u2019s April 2018 resolution purports to authorize certain school employees to go armed while on duty without also requiring that those employees satisfy the training-or-experience requirement under [the law], the resolution violates [the law],\u201d O\u2019Connor wrote.<\/p>\n