From Texas Law Shield: After the recent school shootings in Parkland, Florida, and Santa Fe, Texas, Texas school districts are putting a major focus onto increased safety procedures during the summer break. One option many districts are turning to is arming teachers.
Back in 2013, Texas enacted its Protection of Children Act Program that allows individual school districts to have armed individuals on campus.
School Marshals
One provision of the act allows a district to opt into the School Marshal Program and designate one staff member for every 200 students to be armed on campus, following intensive law enforcement style training and psychological testing. School Marshals that have regular, direct contact with students, however, are not allowed to carry a gun. Instead, they are permitted to have a secured gun within ready access only in a circumstance that would permit the use of deadly force.
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