TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Kate Prince on Apr 27, 2021

Attorney General Herbert Slatery this week signed a letter with 38 other state attorneys general asking Congress to pass the EAGLES Act. Named after the mascot of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School where 17 people were killed in 2018, the act is a national program to prevent targeted school violence. It would expand the U.S. Secret Service’s National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) with a greater focus on school violence prevention. The measure contains research and training components, allows dissemination of evidence-based practices and authorizes the NTAC to work with state and local officials to develop research and training. NTAC was created in 1998 to provide information on threat assessment to the Secret Service and began studying school violence after the 1999 shooting at Columbine High School. Read more on the AG’s website.