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Verify: Are schools adding safety measures this year?

In the wake of another school shooting, what are Arizona schools doing to make sure students are safe?

In the months following the Parkland Shooting in Florida, we saw walkouts, die-ins and impassioned pleas in Arizona, with teenagers leading the way.

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But in the wake of another school shooting, what is Arizona doing to keep students safe?

Recently, statewide school safety reforms at the Sate Capitol have all failed, including proposals to arm school staff, pay for campus officers, create a new type of restraining order against potentially violent students and add more mental health counselors in schools.

More ambitious anti-gun proposals also went nowhere.

What’s left is a patchwork of school safety measures, depending on where you attend school.

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12 news can verify some schools have new measures in place this year.

The City of Glendale recently added full-time police officers at all of its nine high schools.

The Phoenix Union High School District recently redesigned its locks so teachers can lock their classrooms from the inside.

The Williams School District instructed students on the safest ways to respond to a school shooter.

Schools also have emergency drills, enhanced screening protocols of visitors and closed campus policies.

But Arizona remains a hands-off state, leaving school safety largely up to each city, each district, each charter school to decide what safety looks like.

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