A school safety bill introduced in response to the Apalachee High School shooting in September got a major change after advocates warned that it would unfairly criminalize children. Senate Bill 61, authored by state Sen. Greg Dolezal, a Republican from Forsyth County, was initially written to add both terroristic acts and terroristic threats against a school to the list of charges that would mean a juvenile will automatically be tried as an adult. At Monday’s Senate Judiciary Committee meeting, Dolezal announced that terroristic threats would no longer be included in the bill, although terroristic acts and other charges will. “We recognize that there is…
