By City News Service | PUBLISHED: February 27, 2018 at 1:23 pm | UPDATED: February 27, 2018 at 2:46 pm LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted today to bolster a program geared toward identifying troubled kids in order to prevent school shootings and other violence. Supervisors Janice Hahn and Kathryn Barger championed the plan to enhance the School Threat Assessment Response Team, which was established in 2009. “It’s been almost two weeks since 17 people were killed by a gunman at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida,” Hahn said. “Our own schools in L.A. County are not immune.” In addition to foiling a shooting plot at El Camino High School in South Whittier — by a student who had two AR-15 rifles, two handguns and 90 high-capacity ammunition magazines at home — authorities have responded to threats in Long Beach, Santa Clarita, Inglewood, Bellflower and Cerritos since the Florida shooting, Hahn said. The START team received 63 threats last week, but has only 10 mental health professionals to respond to those threats, she said. “In a county of 10 million people, I think we need more than 10 people working on this case,”… Read full this story
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