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Gov. Wolf OKs school safety hotline

HARRISBURG — A brand new school safety law in Pennsylvania is designed to set up state-administered programs to distribute grants and take anonymous reports of dangerous activities or threats of violence

in schools.

Gov. Tom Wolf signed the bill in the hours after the House and Senate overwhelmingly approved it Friday as part of a budget package that’s seeding the grant program with $60 million.

The bill was spurred by February’s Parkland, Flor-ida, school shooting that killed 17 people.

School districts can apply for a grant for a wide range of purposes, including safety and security assessments, security-related technology, training, counselors, police officers and anti-violence programs.

The anonymous reports program would be called “Safe 2 Say” and relay reports to police.

It’s modeled on one Colorado created after 1999’s Columbine school shooting.

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