Illinois lawmakers stress school safety as top priority following Iowa school shooting – WAND (Decatur)

A law that took effect Monday requires school emergency and crisis response plans to include procedures for law enforcement to quickly enter buildings during emergencies. Lawmakers could pass a separate plan this spring to help schools provide crisis response mapping data to local, county, state and federal first responders; it would require the Illinois State Board of Education to provide grants to public schools to cover the costs to obtain crisis mapping data.