Campus carry comes to Texas community colleges Aug. 1

By Chris Eger

The El Paso Community College system, one of the largest in the state, has been preparing for campus carry for more than a year. (Photo: El Paso Times)
The second stage of the Lone Star State’s 2015 campus carry law, opening public junior colleges to licensed concealed carry, takes effect this month.
Signed by Gov. Greg Abbott two years ago, SB 11 gave public four-year colleges and universities in Texas a year to establish local policies to allow guns on campus. Now, community colleges are following suit.
Schools have some control over how they allow guns on campus, with each CEO of a community college, after consulting with faculty and students, able to keep some parts of the school off limits to those with lawfully concealed handguns. Any rules or regulations must be published and areas with enduring gun-free zones, such as offices, day care centers and rooms used for disciplinary or government meetings, marked with signage.
As reported by the El Paso Times, the 28,000-student El Paso Community College system has been busy posting signs and providing extra training to the school’s 40 police officers.
“Anytime there is a new law, it’s our job to be vigilant, to make sure that, first of all,

Source: Guns.com