New York City officials said they received a almost identical threat to public schools but dismissed the message and kept schools open.
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School officials in Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Houston and Dallas received threats late Wednesday similiar to those targeting the school districts in New York City and Los Angeles earlier this week.
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The Miami-Dade County, Dallas and Houston school districts announced on their websites that “less-than-credible” threats were received by email late Wednesday evening, and that schools would be open Thursday.
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Although the SFUSD schools did not issue an official closure, Carranza’s office proceeded with contacting the Federal Bureau of Investigation and SFPD to patrol and investigate campuses for anything that seemed suspicious.
On Tuesday, the Los Angeles School District shut down every campus after they received an e-mail threat.
However, as a precaution, police will increase their presence around schools, according to the school district. And west of Indianapolis, police were searching Thursday for an unknown person who posted threats on Facebook and prompted two school districts to cancel classes for more than 7,000 students on their last day before break. Los Angeles, which has the nation’s second-largest school districts, closed Tuesday after receiving the threat.
The move comes less than two weeks after two shooters killed 14 people in San Bernardino in what was the deadliest terrorist attack on US soil since 9/11.
She says officials deemed the threat “less than credible”. The Danville Community School Corporation said two students were arrested after allegedly making threats against schools in separate incidents.
“We want our entire community to know we are safe”, Superintendent Barbara Jenkins said at a news conference.
The district said in a statement that the validity of the threat it received Thursday afternoon remained in question, but it canceled classes on Friday anyway.
Officials in Long Beach say the district received an email threat similar to the ones in other cities.
The Plainfield Community School Corporation has about 5,000 students attending its four elementary schools, one middle school and one high school.
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. We are working with local law enforcement agencies and are following appropriate protocol.
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This item has been corrected to show that police say the 17-year-old who was arrested is a sophomore, not a senior.
