'This is the time to do something': Lawmakers launch Utah Safe Schools Commission

SALT LAKE CITY — The issue of school safety has reached a point of "ripeness," Rep. Mike Kennedy, R-Alpine, says."This is the time to do something," Kennedy, R-Alpine, a family physician and attorney, said Thursday as he introduced the members of a diverse, nonpartisan commission that will meet regularly to develop recommendations to be forwarded to the Utah Legislature.The commission will meet behind closed doors and issue no reports until it reaches its final recommendations, possibly be