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Franklin Schools closed, one day after threats in Danville and Plainfield
However, after consulting with police and the FBI, San Francisco chose to keep schools open, following a sweep of 130 schools by trained staff. Carranza said, “All education sites in San Francisco Unified School District have now been swept or scanned and nothing suspicious was found”.
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Similar threats were made in Miami and Houston, where they also were determined to be “less than credible”, according to CCSD.
Three school districts in the state canceled classes.
And in Miami, school officials assured families that the district police would employ extra security to schools Thursday.
Several threats have been leveled this week at the Franklin Community Schools, located about 20 miles south of Indianapolis.
Carranza says the threat was nearly generic sent by email overnight to five district employees, but no specific schools were named.
A Facebook post said the school heard rumors that someone was planning to bring a gun to school on Thursday.
The third individual apparently made the Facebook postings that spurred both the Danville district and Plainfield district to cancel classes. Superintendent Richard Carranza said, “At this point in time we have no reason to believe the threat is credible whatsoever”. “There’s going to be a fair amount of subjectivity” in determining threats, Dorn says. The nation’s second-largest school district has more than 700,000 students.
Before the online threats that led to its district cancellations were posted, Danville Community High School was on alert due to separate incidents of threats by students, both of whom were arrested early Thursday.
At a press conference Thursday, HISD Police Chief Robert Mock said the e-mail went to the district’s superintendent and others, but it did not originate from the Houston area. Long Beach’s school district in California also received a similar warning.
We will continue working with public safety officials, as this is an ongoing investigation.
According to Mesquite Police Department’s Lieutenant MaQuade Chesley, MPD had not received any notification from CCSD or other agencies that would call for a need of heightened security at Mesquite Schools. “Parents are responding emotionally, and school staff oftentimes respond to the community anxiety and potential pushback that they may get if they leave kids in school”.
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Students in Miami, Fort Lauderdale and Houston are heading to school Thursday, hours after school officials in those cities received threats similar to the ones received by the Los Angeles and NY school districts earlier this week.