Plans for active shooters vary on Montana campuses

HELENA — Montana's colleges and universities are required to develop emergency operation plans that include responding to an "active shooter" on campus, but what goes in them and how often staff and students are trained for such a situation varies from campus to campus.

Nationwide, school employees and students are asking whether campuses should do more following the shooting deaths of nine students at a community college in southern Oregon.

Because each school is unique in the size of the campus and community where it is located, Montana's colleges and universities work with local law-en...