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Dallas, Houston Schools Receive E-mail Threat
School officials in Miami and Fort Lauderdale haven’t released details about the threats but said on their websites they were similar to those received in NY and Los Angeles earlier in the week.
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Students who had already arrived at school were being supervised until parents could pick them up, officials said. The nation’s second-largest school district has more than 700,000 students. We have established communications with law enforcement agencies and are following appropriate protocol. Threats made on Facebook against a specific student at Plainfield High School grew into threats against numerous students, followed by threats to Danville High School made by the same Facebook account.
School districts in Houston, Dallas, Orlando, Fort Lauderdale, Miami and San Francisco all decided on Thursday that emailed threats were not credible and were similar to ones sent to schools in New York City and Los Angeles earlier this week.
According to employees of CCSD, who refused to name themselves when contacted by the MLN, the CCSD staff consulted with special Local Threat experts and Crisis Response Teams as well as multiple law enforcement agencies, who ultimately deemed the email as non-credible.
Robert Mock, police chief for the Houston Independent School District, said random overnight searches by explosives-detecting dogs and patrol officers turned up nothing after district officials, including the superintendent, received the threat by email.
A rash of email and phone threats of violence hit schools from New Jersey to Florida to Texas on Thursday, but most were deemed to be hoaxes and schools opened.
Three school districts in the state canceled classes. “I always thought I brought them to the best, safe place in the world, but some people love to make others unhappy I guess”. The school also tweeted that it was on lockdown.
School will resume on January 4.
The third individual apparently made the Facebook postings that spurred both the Danville district and Plainfield district to cancel classes. Then, a 17-year-old sophomore, after learning of the freshman’s arrest, posted a threat on Facebook saying, “You can’t stop us all”, Wright said.
Authorities are still trying to track down the person responsible for making threats to Plainfield High School.
National School Safety and Security Services, Ohio topped the list of threats followed by California, Pennsylvania, New York and Florida.
We will continue working with public safety officials, as this is an ongoing investigation.
The district has 356 campuses and more than 320,000 students. “It’s not going to work”, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings said at a news conference on Thursday.
In Texas, threats were received in the Houston, Dallas and McAllen school districts.
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“HISD asks parents and students to be vigilant Thursday morning, and report any suspicious activity to police”.