Congressman Clay Higgins (R) represents Louisiana's 3rd Congressional District
In response to the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, Southwest Louisiana Congressman Clay Higgins has introduced a bill he calls the School Watch and Tactics Act.
“And that calls for enhanced training standards to make sure that school resource officers also had SWAT level tactical schools,” said Higgins.
A second bill from Higgins would require the federal departments of Education and Justice to determine how many schools even have security officers and how many need one.
“How many school resource officers do we have in a country,” said Higgins. “We have 100,000 schools, how many school resource officers do we have right now and where are they, there’s no data on that.”
Higgins says he first introduced these bills in 2018. Since then, he says, there have been too many school shootings – including last week’s massacre in Uvalde, Texas. Higgins says members of Congress may feel differently now about taking action.
“We think perhaps now there is an appetite for actual solutions to the horrors we witnessed in these school shootings,” said Higgins.
Higgins says earlier this month he notified state and local leaders of federal funding opportunities through the Department of Justice’s School Violence Prevention Program.
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