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Los Angeles law enforcement and city leaders are defending the decision to shut down the city’s school system due to an emailed threat. The threat to NY schools is said to be identical to LA’s except for the name of the city and number of people participating in the terrorism threat.
“I think it’s irresponsible … to criticize that decision at that point”, Beck said, reported the LA Times.
Ronna Bronstein, who has two sons in grade school, said she was trying to find out more about the incident while shielding her younger child from the news.
Some states have laws that specifically address threats at schools, including Arkansas, Delaware, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Virginia and Washington, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. It raises the question: how do schools best keep students safe? The official was not authorized to disclose details of an ongoing investigation and provided it only on condition of anonymity. It is one that school district officials around the country have weighed heavily in the wake of school shootings and threats.
– From Associated Press writer Tami Abdollah in Washington, D.C.
The decision to close Los Angeles schools was announced around the same time, at 6:25 a.m. PST.
Students are heading back to class a day after an emailed threat triggered a shutdown of the vast Los Angeles Unified School District. “That’s just unacceptable”, she said. “It was so outlandish”, de Blasio said.
The New York City Police Department School Safety Division is a division of the NYPD that provides security to the city’s schools.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest said he would not second-guess the decisions made in Los Angeles or NY. As a former school district police chief in Georgia, he said he has seen that prosecutions can discourage hoax artists.
A voice message from the LA Unified School District said: “As a result of a threat received the superintendent has directed all schools to be closed today”.
She got an automated phone call informing her of the closure.
“I was supposed to give an essay in class today, and finals are Friday”, Williams said. The official, who was not authorized to discuss an ongoing investigation, spoke on condition of anonymity.
But the unprecedented move at the second-largest public school system in the United States left some 643,000 students and their families scrambling to make last-minute alternate arrangements and drew wide criticism.
“Parents are encouraged to send their children to their regularly scheduled classes on Thursday, Dec. 17”. “This is not a credible threat and not one that needs any action”.
“Based on past circumstance, I could not take the chance”, Cortines said.
After more than 1,500 school district sites had been inspected by nightfall, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti conceded that the message appeared to have been a hoax.
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“All L.A. Unified schools and charters have been inspected, and Chief Steven Zipperman has given the all-clear”, Superintendent Ramon Cortines said.
