{"id":580,"date":"2026-05-16T10:01:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T10:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/floridamovingchronicle.com\/?p=580"},"modified":"2026-05-16T10:01:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T10:01:25","slug":"desantis-signs-bill-expanding-school-guardian-program-to-colleges-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/floridamovingchronicle.com\/?p=580","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis signs bill expanding school guardian program to colleges, universities"},"content":{"rendered":"<article><!-- --><!-- --><!-- WPS-5038 -- removed the script from WPS and added the placeholder for trinity player --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><span>Tallahassee<\/span><!-- --><!-- --><!-- CONTENT --><!--[--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill Friday to expand the armed \u201cschool guardian\u201d program to Florida\u2019s colleges and universities.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/floridamovingchronicle.com\/?p=579\">More AI data centers are coming to South Florida. Could one open near you?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>The law builds on changes made in the public-school system after the 2018 mass shooting at Parkland\u2019s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>DeSantis maintained that the guardian program deters potential perpetrators and will make colleges and universities \u201csafer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey don\u2019t know whether they\u2019re going to be able to face resistance, so that they try to gravitate toward gun free areas, where they know basically people are going to be sitting ducks,\u201d DeSantis said during an event at the Idea Center in Miami. \u201cThe guardian, it puts the bad guys on the defense. They don\u2019t know who is going to be able to offer them resistance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/floridamovingchronicle.com\/?p=577\">\u2018That could have been my story\u2019: Black femicides spark hard talks in South Florida<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>The new law (HB 757) requires institutions to train faculty to detect and respond to mental health issues, adopt an active assailant response plan, adopt post-incident family reunification plans and imposes felony charges for discharging a weapon within 1,000 feet of a campus.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Also, records related to a student\u2019s behavior, including threat assessment reports and student psychological evaluations, must transfer when the individual moves from K-12 school to a state college or university.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>The bill was crafted after a shooting during the 2025 legislative session, where a student killed two people and wounded five others at Florida State University.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/floridamovingchronicle.com\/?p=575\">DeSantis dismisses validity of new Trump library lawsuit during Miami appearance<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--]--><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Florida law expands school guardians to universities, requires mental health training, active assailant plans and felony charges for weapon discharge near campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-florida-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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