Contact: Austin Altenburg WASHINGTON — The Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee discussed school security, threat mitigation and prevention best practices, as well as past and present recommendations from the state and federal level on how we can keep our children safe and secure at school. Panel participants, who included parents of children killed in the 2018 Parkland, Fla. school shooting, shared their stories and discussed possible solutions to try and mitigate future tragedies like we’ve seen in communities across the country. “After the Columbine, Sandy Hook, and Parkland school attacks, commissions were formed to analyze events leading up to the attacks,