DePasquale tours state for school safety

(Harrisburg) — More than a month after announcing plans to improve school safety audits, Pennsylvania’s Auditor General has been traveling the state to get input on how to do that. 

Auditor General Eugene DePasquale says he’s been visiting schools to get input from students about what they think will help to make them safer.

DePasquale talks about what students he spoke with had to say during one such visit last week.

“A lot of concern about mental health.  Certainly there was a strong feeling from the students of having someone who is appropriately trained be armed in the school.  They didn’t have any problems going through metal detectors if that was something that was required.  But the overall stress was the mental health.  That was their biggest concern,” DePasquale said.

DePasquale says his meetings with students have helped him to think about things he would not have otherwise.