This week's shooting at a Nashville school has raised new concerns about how to keep kids safe, and the Medford Police Department (MPD) is making sure they're prepared in the event of an active threat.

MPD officers receive at least one active threat training a year, with responses and tactics constantly evaluated based on the latest information from places like Nashville or Uvalde.

"That is a series of classroom as well as scenario-based training. That's department-wide so all of our sworn personnel are going to that and making sure we're proficient in those areas. As well as watching videos of incidents that have happened across the nation and doing debriefs of how we would respond to that tactically," said M.P.D. spokeswoman Lt. Rebecca Pietila.

Although they don't train on every school in the area or learn each layout individually, they do have online tools as part of their planning as an extra resource for those who want to practice on a specific school.

"Those are accessible to anyone of our officers, it's just a link they can click so they can pull that up. In addition to training specifically at schools depending on availability. But we do train on schools in our area," Pietila said.

There's also a legislative component to this issue, and as part of that, Oregon House Republicans proposed a series of bills related to school safety on Tuesday.

Yesterday they put forth seven different bills related to keeping kids safe, including transferring money to pay for more school resource officers and one that would require schools to have at least one panic alarm in every school building. However, out of the seven different school safety bills proposed, only one successfully made it through the House.

"Every parent, every school board member, every family, every community member, should be demanding that our schools be required to keep our children safe. Why not have security there? Why not have school resource officers?" said Oregon State Rep. Lily Morgan (R- Grants Pass), who sponsored one of the bills in the package.

The bill that did get through was passed unanimously and will require school districts to electronically communicate with parents or guardians if there is a safety threat at the schools.