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LANDER (WNE) — Lander-based Fremont County School District No. 1 recently became the fourth district in Wyoming to allow approved staff members to carry firearms in schools.

School board chairman Brett Berg said there was more support for the policy than was apparent at board meetings and the board felt the policy would make the schools safer.

The Legislature passed a law in 2017 allowing districts to decide whether to arm staff.

The board began considering the policy several months after the law allowing it came into effect, Berg and Superintendent David Barker said.

The district launched two surveys — one just for staff and one for the entire community — to gauge interest.

The polls, which Barker said were not scientific, showed support for the policy; Berg said he didn’t know how he felt about the policy when the board first discussed it in 2017, but after discussing it with two veteran law enforcement officials — who he said told him that arming trained and willing staff would make students and staff safer — he decided to support it.

Berg repeated that he was confident in the policy that was passed.

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