The schools were already granted licenses to arm their employees.
Dr. David Hopkins, superintendent of the Clarksville School District, called today to say that after further study he's convinced Attorney General Dustin McDaniel's opinion on arming of school district staff members is wrong and Clarksville will challenge that interpretation if a state regulatory agency sides with McDaniel.
An official opinion by McDaniel this week
said public schools didn't qualify, as private businesses did, to be
licensed to employ their own staff as armed security, if properly
trained. Clarksville, and several other districts, have received
licenses for this purpose. The issue came to a head on news that
Clarksville had trained 20 or more staff members to be armed. It paid
each a $1,000 stipend to purchase semi-automatic pistols to carry in
concealment as added security in the 2,400-student district.
Friday, Hopkins had said he would "stand down" on armed staff and
respected McDaniel's opinion. But he said he'd had time to study it
further and also confer with the district's private attorney, Jay Bequette of Little Rock. Now, he says he believes that McDaniel's opinion came out of "left field."
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