jason812 wrote:What does the state capital do regarding field trips? I would imagine there are quite a few every week and I haven't heard of the capital being off limits for LTC because of a school field trip. I thought the law clearly stated if you were a chaperone or part of the field trip you were not allowed to carry but if you were not a party to the field trip you were allowed. Does this mean if you are in a gas station and school bus on a field trip makes a pit stop, you must leave or quit carrying?ELB wrote:I have found a copy of the judge's rulings of 27 Dec 2017. https://www.tml.org/p/Ltr%20%20-%20Paxt ... -3340).pdf
School-Sponsored Activity:
I was unaware until now that the City of Austin claimed that one of the reasons it can ban carry at the City Hall was because of school-sponsored activities. In particular City Hall has a "People's Gallery" of art that includes works by students in cooperation with the Austin ISD. The city argues that this is a school-sponsored activity. The judge ruled that passive display of art does is not a school-sponsored activity.
However, the City and the OAG agree that the school sponsored activity ban on LTC carry applies in City Hall when there are actual field trips or of the activities sponsored by the school being conducted.
Once again, it is not yet in the record as which days there were school sponsored activities in the City Hall, so that will have to be determined at trial.
This could be bad if it is allowed to be an excuse to ban LTC.
Why can't the OAG put out the blanket policy/law/explanation that the municipalities have to follow the state capital policies? This would be similar to the gun laws that would prevent an individual city from banning a firearm that is not banned by the state.
Yes, I agree! We need to keep responsible gun carriers people FAR AWAY from large groups of students AND schools. WE ARE THE OBVIOUS THREAT. (Sarcasm)
(Sorry, still mad about what happened today)
