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Natrona County trustees debate details of state-backed policy allowing staff to carry concealed firearms
Summary
Trustees discussed a state law that allows school employees and volunteers to carry concealed firearms on campus and flagged unresolved issues including who pays for required training, whether military or police experience qualifies and limits on mental-health screening. No final local changes beyond drafting were made at the meeting.
Trustees for Natrona County School District #1 discussed the district’s draft policy implementing a state law that allows staff and volunteers to carry concealed firearms on school property, focusing on training, funding and eligibility requirements.
The discussion matters because the legislature authorized local policy changes that give employees the option to carry concealed firearms in schools, but left several operational details to districts. Trustees and staff weighed how the district will implement training, who will pay for it and what checks the district may legally require.
Trustee Schmidt said the decision of whether an employee meets the law’s requirements will be a human resources responsibility at the district level and emphasized, “we're not requiring employees to carry concealed weapons… We are allowing it.”…
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