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Great advice in the above comments. Your church can choose to go with being licensed or volunteer (with the new law) but there are requirements for both that must be followed. Obviously licensed has a lot more requirements like insurance, training, uniforms and whether you go with an existing security company or form your own or with a Letter of Authority (LOA).

I have been on our church security team since it was started in 2009. We started out licensed with another company, then LOA, then decided to become fully licensed on our own. We want to keep that even with the change in the law. That lets us have uniforms (Level III Security) and Personal Protection Officer (Level IV).

There is going to be a Sheepdog Seminar for churches in Hurst June 30th: http://www.sheepdogsafetytraining.com/f ... t-june-30/. This seminar is designed more for making churches aware of the need for thinking about safety and security. There are also vendors who will try to sell you services and products and books etc. - some very good, some not. But it is good source of information especially for churches just looking into it for the first time. The last one I went to was about two or three years ago and they did address specific legal requirements - though that has now changed. So I'm sure they will address those changes in the law.

Finally, from what you shared, I would be very concerned with the plan the gentleman presented. As others stated there are so many things wrong about what he is recommending.