Photo: Pixabay California school officials would be required to report any “perceived threat” of a mass shooting to law enforcement under a bill advancing in the state Legislature, reports CalMatters. Another bill, which passed the state Senate two days after the Uvalde school massacre, ends mandatory reporting to law enforcement of students who attack, assault or physically threaten a school employee, reports Sarah Weaver in the Daily Caller. ACLU California Action endorsed

School shootings aren’t an epidemic, writes Martin Kaste on NPR. “Schools are safer today than they had been in previous decades,” says James Alan Fox, a professor of criminology at Northeastern University. Multiple-victim shootings were more common in the ’90s, his analysis concludes. The number of victims is down too. “In the 1992-93 school year, about 0.55 students per million were shot and killed; in 2014-15, that rate was closer to 0.15 per million.” “Today we have cell