Tennessee, Virginia AGs urging Congress to pass school violence reduction bill

Attorney Generals in Tennessee and Virginia are among a majority of the country’s top lawyers urging Congress to pass legislation aimed at reducing school shootings.

Herbert Slatery, Tennessee Attorney General, and Mark Herring, Virginia Attorney General, has asked lawmakers to pass the EAGLES Act, a national program that would expand the Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center with higher focus on preventing school violence.

The bill is named after the mascot of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, where 17 people were killed during a shooting in February of 2018.