Police presence is increased at schools around the district, which has 57,000 students. By the end of the day, the email was revealed to be a hoax and schools reopened on Wednesday morning without incident.
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The threats toward both Plainfield and Danville schools are nothing like investigators have seen before, Lees said.
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Mock says explosives detecting dogs and extra patrols responded after the email was received Wednesday night.
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The author claims to be a student in the district suffering from “bullying”, “loneliness” and “rejection”.
Nearby school districts were on high alert after the threats made in Danville and Plainfield.
“It did cause a lot of nervousness with the parents and the students”, said William Wright, Danville Police Chief.
School districts in Houston, Dallas, Orlando, Fort Lauderdale and Miami 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.
“We’ve dealt with Facebook, and Snapchat, and different social media issues in the past with cases but nothing to this affect that’s spread to this type of magnitude”, said Captain Jill Lees, with Plainfield Police.
Some of the districts affected by the latest threats are among the nation’s largest – Miami ranks fourth, Fort Lauderdale’s Broward County system is sixth, Houston seventh, Orlando 10th and Dallas 14th.
Another parent, who didn’t want to be identified on camera, told 24 Hour News 8 she too has a young daughter in elementary school in Plainfield.
So far Thursday, “everything’s been normal, schools are in session, kids are learning”, Mock said.
Two Indiana school districts closed on Thursday after getting threats of violence, while large districts in Texas and Florida said they would hold classes after deeming similar threats not credible.
Tuesday’s threat, an email, prompted Los Angeles to shutter its 900 public schools for fear of a large-scale attack. “We have established communications with law enforcement agencies and are following appropriate protocol”. There are no national guidelines for administrators on determining threat levels, and most decisions to close are made by superintendents and school boards, often in conjunction with police departments or emergency services.
Meanwhile, an all-clear was given after East Orange Campus High School in New Jersey was evacuated on Thursday following a phoned-in bomb threat.
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The district informed federal, state and local authorities and will deploy additional security to campuses on Thursday, according to the announcement.
