KCII News spoke with Senator Chuck Grassley about the Eagles Act and why he thinks it should be implemented. “So the Eagles Act would build on a program that the Secret Service has had for about twenty-five years in which they have experts that will go to groups and train them how to recognize somebody, recognize people that are a harm to themselves or a harm to other people. But it isn’t in the schools, and we should educate personnel in the schools about recognizing people like that, to get them intervened and get them help.” The bill, named after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mascot, would expand the U.S. Secret Service’s National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) to include a greater focus on preventing targeted violence, including school violence. The NTAC provides research and training for behavioral threat assessment and targeted violence, including school shootings and other public threats. The legislation creates a national program on targeted school violence prevention, and expands the NTAC’s research and training on school violence and its dissemination of information on school violence prevention initiatives.