Safety commission: Disciplinary program at Parkland school not responsible for February shooting

Published July 11, 2018 4:14pm ET



A state commission found that a controversial school discipline program is not to blame for a deadly mass shooting carried out by a former student earlier this year in Parkland, Fla.

The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission said the student, Nikolas Cruz, had been recommended to attend the three-day disciplinary program, PROMISE, after damaging a school bathroom faucet, but that there is no record of his attending the program in 2013, nor are there consequences for students who don’t attend, according to Sun Sentinel. While some argued that Cruz would not have been able to purchase the AR-15 he used in the shooting if he had had an arrest on his record, the commission said that since Cruz was a juvenile first-time offender, such an incident would not have had an impact on his ability to purchase the weapon.

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