Video & Transcript Research : 'threat'

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AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Judiciary Committee Apr 30th, 2025

Judiciary

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  • because you don't want somebody to show up and shoot an offender that's unarmed and not posing any threat
  • in here now, and in their discretion, they look at me and they say, you know, hey, he looks like a threat
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations Committee on Higher Education Jan 28th, 2026

Appropriations Committee on Higher Education

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  • , publicly available guidance that clearly explains how students, faculty, or staff should report threats
  • Threats to their physical safety.
  • , publicly available guidance that clearly explains how students, faculty, or staff should report threats
  • A threat occurs, no one is left guessing who to contact, what to do, or what support is available, and
  • Of course, there's always 911, but if there are threats that are not immediate, if you get a threat,
Bills: S0176, S0816
Summary: The Appropriations Committee on Higher Education met to hear two bills and several confirmation appointments. Senate Bill 176, as amended, required public universities to maintain and publicize clear campus safety policies and reporting procedures for threats to students, faculty, staff, and visitors. Senator Polsky said the bill was intended to close a gap in postsecondary safety guidance and mirror K-12 requirements. The committee adopted the amendment without objection, heard supportive comments about campus safety, and reported the bill favorably. The committee also heard Senate Bill 116, which would codify the University of Florida Diabetes Institute in statute to support research, prevention, education, collaboration, and outreach on diabetes; the bill drew supportive testimony from AARP and others and was also reported favorably. The committee then took up confirmations for multiple university and college boards of trustees. Nominees and appointees testified about their backgrounds and priorities, including FIU trustee Nestor Plana, UNF trustee Clarence Stephen Moore, UCF trustees Mark Philburn and Alan Flores, USF trustees Rick Piccolo and Nancy Watkins Hemingway, and Miami Dade College trustee Ismarie Monreal, among others. Their remarks emphasized student success, research growth, workforce development, financial stewardship, and institutional goals such as engineering, cybersecurity, health care, and preeminence. Several members asked about NCLEX nursing pass rates and university performance metrics, and one public commenter raised concerns about campus climate and student safety at UCF. After hearing the appointees and public comment, the committee voted to confirm the group of nominees in a block and reported the confirmations favorably. The meeting concluded without further business after a motion to adjourn.
US
Transcript Highlights:
  • Eisenberg understands the gravity of these threats.
  • We also have massive terrorist threats coming from overseas.
  • that we faced after 9-11 and the terror threat that we face right now.
  • Kent, I want to turn to the threat of terrorism.
  • threat network.
Summary: The committee meeting centered around significant discussions regarding national security and intelligence community leadership. Notably, nominees Aaron Lucas for Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, Joe Kent for Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, and John Eisenberg for Assistant Attorney General for National Security were introduced. Concerns were raised about the current state of U.S. intelligence capabilities, particularly in relation to threats posed by foreign adversaries such as China and ongoing risks from terrorism. The dialogue emphasized the necessity for robust oversight and the importance of collaboration within the intelligence community, as well as with international allies, to ensure effective security measures are in place.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Education Postsecondary Jan 13th, 2026

Education Postsecondary

Transcript Highlights:
  • , publicly available guidance that clearly explains how students, faculty, or staff should report threats
Bills: S0176, S0372, S0720, S0816
Summary: The Committee on Education Postsecondary met with a quorum present and considered several bills and one confirmation. Senate Bill 720, relating to resident status for tuition purposes for previously incarcerated Floridians, was presented by Senator Osgood and supported by testimony from Eddie Fordham, who described his own reentry and college experience and the difficulty of proving residency after long incarceration. Senators Jones and Rodriguez spoke in favor, emphasizing rehabilitation and access to education. The bill was reported favorably by roll call vote. The committee then approved Senate Bill 372, which would extend the state employee tuition waiver program to sheriff’s office employees on a space-available basis, with support noted from the Florida Sheriffs Association. Senate Bill 176, dealing with campus emergency management, conduct, and workplace violence policies, was also reported favorably after discussion focused on clearer reporting protocols, protective measures, and timely updates for students, faculty, and staff; several groups waved in support. Members also voted to recommend confirmation of Douglas Broxton to the Board of Governors of the State University System. Finally, Senate Bill 816, establishing the University of Florida Diabetes Institute in statute to advance research, prevention, care, education, collaboration, and outreach on diabetes, received supportive testimony from medical and university representatives and favorable comments from senators, including remarks about research, federal funding, and improved outcomes. The bill was reported favorably, and the committee adjourned without objection.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Judiciary Committee Apr 9th, 2025

Judiciary

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  • For it to classify as a terrorist threat, it must be a credible and imminent threat. And so with...
  • Senator Single, we get bomb threats at schools all the time.
  • It does not change anything with the terrorist threat in the first degree. terrorist threat in the first
  • Another shooting threat took place yesterday in Walker County.
  • It also changes the term "threaten" to "threat," making it broader.
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • There's a concept in security called your threat surface.
  • a smaller threat surface and allow us to reduce risk a little bit that way.
  • That's the number your threat surface.
  • If we increases our threat surface.
  • threat surface to a smaller uh threat threat surface to a smaller uh threat surface<00:04:39.360
Summary: The House Budget Review Subcommittee on Personnel, Public Retirement, and Finance received a presentation from Jim Barnhard, CIO of the Commonwealth Office of Technology, and David Carter, deputy CIO/CISO, on the state’s citizen identity management project. They said the project is intended to streamline citizen logins across agencies, reduce duplicated identity-management costs, improve security by centralizing authentication, and provide a flexible system that can scale with demand. The presenters described major implementation challenges, including integrating with diverse and legacy applications, and said the chosen software-as-a-service vendor was selected because it can connect to many systems and maintain the service in a federally certified cloud environment. The presenters emphasized that the project scope is limited to login, authentication, identity management, and identity proofing, while leaving authorization decisions to the individual applications and agencies. They said the work is being done in phases, beginning with discovery sessions with agencies, then selecting representative applications for onboarding rather than attempting a “big bang” rollout. They also said the vendor agreement includes professional services and knowledge transfer to reduce long-term dependence on outside support, and that the state has already begun outreach to agencies, including initial work with the Finance Cabinet and the Department of Revenue. Members asked about staffing, current spending, future costs, and whether existing systems or contracts could be reduced. The presenters said the project is being supported with existing staff, with no expectation of a large increase in positions, and that the vendor will carry most of the operational load. They said they did not have statewide spending figures with them but could try to gather them, and explained that the negotiated pricing is intended to be all-inclusive, with fixed costs for the first five years and capped increases in years six and seven. They said centralizing identity services should eventually allow the Commonwealth to stand down some duplicated agency-level licensing and reduce overall operational costs.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Education Policy Committee 3/17/26

Education Policy

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  • This is the anonymous threat bill. Um, and it was laid over by Chair Jordan.
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  • Um, and it is the anonymous threat bill.
  • reporting which would anonymous threat reporting which would be<00:46:52.560> a<00:46:52.800>
Bills: HF3487, HF3421
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Education Finance Committee 3/5/26

Education Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • A behavioral threat assessment and management program that can be useful at the state level if people
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Summary: The committee first adopted the March 3rd minutes by voice vote after Representative Lee moved them and there was no discussion. Members then reviewed hearing rules on decorum, safety, and participation before taking testimony from Dr. James Densley and Dr. Jillian Peterson of the Violence Prevention Project Research Center at Hamline University. The presenters summarized research on mass shootings and K-12 school shootings, drawing on a database of homicides in school settings from 2000 to 2025 and a smaller set of 15 K-12 mass shooting cases. They said school shooters are usually insiders, most often current or former students, and typically young males. They described common patterns including a noticeable crisis before attacks, perpetrators viewing the shooting as a final act, studying prior shooters online, and “leakage” in which most tell someone in advance. They also emphasized that many perpetrators use unsecured firearms from family members and argued that prevention should combine reporting systems, behavioral threat assessment, counseling, mentoring, secure storage, and other layered interventions rather than rely on a single solution. The presenters also discussed broader violence trends in the Twin Cities, saying much school violence is spillover from community violence and that pandemic-era disruptions and weakened trust in institutions contributed to serious violence. They cited a national survey finding that exposure to gun violence is associated with PTSD, anxiety, depression, and fear of public spaces, especially among young people. During member questions, Representative Wam asked for clarification on the data set and the rural/small-town share of the survey sample.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Criminal Justice Feb 11th, 2026

Criminal Justice

Transcript Highlights:
  • improve information sharing when students or others present threatening behavior indicators, establish threat
  • The unit will operate through seven regional teams to provide statewide coverage and coordinated threat
  • to the interests of the... ...views or opinions that are a threat to the interests of the state.
  • What this is doing is saying we want a law enforcement unit, recognizing that there's new threats out
  • there, recognizing that bad people want to do harm. ...unit, recognizing that there's new threats out
Summary: The committee met with a quorum present and took up a series of bills, beginning with SB 1300 on education and workforce development for current and former inmates. Senator Claudio explained that the bill is intended to expand collaboration between the Department of Transportation and the Department of Corrections to provide training opportunities tied to Florida’s need for CDL drivers. The bill was reported favorably without debate. Members then considered SB 896 on campus safety, as amended by strike-all and late-filed amendment. The bill would require postsecondary institutions to adopt active assailant response plans, conduct security risk assessments, improve threat reporting and information sharing, and allow voluntary participation in the guardian program; the late-filed amendment removed a prohibition on guardians wearing uniforms. After questions about the firearm-discharge provision near campuses and testimony both for and against, the committee reported the bill favorably. The committee also reported favorably SB 86 on commercial motor vehicles operated by unauthorized aliens, SB 642 on foreign and alien bail bond insurers, and confirmed appointees listed on tabs 10 through 19. The committee next heard SB 712 on pyramid promotional schemes, which would create a new prohibition and increase penalties while preserving legitimate direct sales plans. Members raised concerns about whether participants in such schemes might themselves be victims, and the sponsor said prosecutorial discretion would distinguish victims from primary wrongdoers; the bill was reported favorably. SB 1224 on rental housing application fraud was also amended and reported favorably after testimony from apartment and realtor groups in support. In the latter part of the meeting, Chair Martin presented SB 1370 to expand habitual traffic offender status to repeated unlicensed driving, and SB 1712 to create a statewide FDLE counterintelligence and counterterrorism unit. SB 1370 was reported favorably unanimously. SB 1712 drew extensive questioning and public opposition over concerns about broad language, surveillance, and possible impacts on speech and protest, but the sponsor said the unit would focus on protecting the state from adversary intelligence threats and operate within constitutional limits; it was reported favorably. Finally, SB 758 on the Justice Administrative Commission was amended to adjust commission membership and reported favorably unanimously. The committee then recorded additional votes for members and adjourned.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Finance May 18th, 2026

Finance

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  • how we can say there's going to be this flood of physicians that leave the network because of the threat
  • , the threat that we can impose this policy that we're trying to prevent.