Public Safety Update 8/5/22

The House passed legislation Friday, 7/29, to revive a ban on certain semi-automatic guns, the first vote of its kind in years and a direct response to the firearms often used in recent mass shootings…

The Senate approved a House-passed bill on Monday, 8/1, that would expand disability benefits to public safety officers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and would provide death benefits to survivors of officers who die by suicide…

Over a dozen major U.S. news organizations are suing the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) for failing to release public records related to the shooting at Robb elementary school in Uvalde that left 19 children and two teachers dead… 

An armed security officer told investigators she thought an active shooting at a Michigan high school was a drill and that one of the bleeding students simply was wearing “really good makeup,” an attorney suing the school district said Wednesday…

A dozen jurors and 10 alternates visited the scene of the Parkland mass shooting Thursday in the sentencing trial of convicted shooter Nikolas Cruz…

The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline's shortened number, 988, rolled out on July 16…