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Monroe County presenters ask Pleasant Valley SD to allow student gun-safety survey and support voluntary weapon storage
Summary
Presenters for a state-funded gun-safety pilot told the Pleasant Valley Board of Education the program would run anonymous high-school surveys and offer voluntary temporary weapon storage for households in crisis; the board did not take a vote but heard questions about scope, privacy and timing.
Representatives of a state-funded gun-safety pilot told the Pleasant Valley School District board on March 13 that Monroe County is a pilot site and asked permission to run an anonymous student survey and to publicize a voluntary weapon-storage option for households experiencing mental-health crises.
The presenters said the three-year grant funds a two-part effort: an anonymous, SurveyMonkey questionnaire of high-school students to identify exposure to firearms and a county-run program that temporarily stores weapons for families who request help during a crisis. They said the effort is intended to reduce “unexpected discharges” — accidental or impulsive shootings in homes where firearms are not stored securely — and to gather information that will shape noncurricular safety programming delivered by sheriff’s deputies and partner agencies, not by classroom teachers.
Why it matters: Monroe County’s presenters told the board the county’s suicide-death rate by firearm is above state and national averages and that a pilot there could inform a…
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