Ehrlich appoints school-safety task force after string of incidents

On the heels of a gun going off at a Baltimore elementary school last week, a shooting outside a Frederick Douglass High football game Friday, a recent BB gun incident in Baltimore County and a series of bomb threats that prompted the evacuation of an Anne Arundel County high school, Gov. Robert Ehrlich announced the appointments Tuesday to the newly formed 19-member Task Force on School Safety.

The task force was authorized in May by legislation passed by the General Assembly over the opposition of the Maryland Association of Boards of Education.